cut it fine
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cut it fine
verb cuts it fine · cutting it fine · cut it fine
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To achieve something at the last possible moment, or with no margin for error.
‘No, — I hadn’t time. I was due at the station, — I was cutting it pretty fine as it was.’
Similar: cut it close
- To be stingy. “O stop, stop,” cried the Mole in ecstacies: “This is too much!” “Do you really think so?” enquired the Rat seriously. “It’s only what I always take on these little excursions; and the other animals are always telling me that I’m a mean beast and cut it very fine!”
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, it, fine.
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