CUTCORNERS

cut corners

Verb

  1. To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.
  2. To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly or take short cuts.
    The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.


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