cut it out

Idioms  

1. Stop, desist, as in Cut it out, stop teasing your sister. [c. 1900] Also see cut it, def. 1.

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Example Sentences

As dark as the novel becomes, “the real darkness of the gulag there was so bleak that I had to cut it out,” the author has said.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Cut it out. You scared me. What are you doing, creeping around like that?"

From Literature

I’d started twisting it into locs because there was no way to cut it out here, and it was growing rapidly.

From Literature

Turkish side Galatasaray pulled level after 20 minutes when Llorente bundled Roland Sallai's cross into his own net as he tried to cut it out, denying his goalkeeper Jan Oblak a clean sheet on his 100th Champions League appearance.

From Barron's

Mr. Baker has written a fine article, so persuasive that I’ve cut it out of the paper and put it in my wallet.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• abandon
• break off
• cease
• conclude
• discontinue
• drop
• give up
• halt
• leave
• retire
• suspend
• terminate
• withdraw