cut through

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cut through (plural cut throughs)

1. Alternative form of cut-through

cut through (third-person singular simple present cuts through, present participle cutting through, simple past and past participle cut through)

1. (transitive) To take a shortcut through.

   Synonym: cut across

   I usually cut through the woods to get home, but last night it was too dark.

2. (idiomatic, transitive) To dispense with or quickly deal with (an issue that is seen as an obstruction or waste of time).

   Can we cut through the bureaucracy and make a decision on the spot?

3. (figurative) To reach (an audience etc.).
   • 2021 December 27, Matthew Taylor, quoting Asad Rehman, “Asad Rehman on climate justice: ‘Now we are seeing these arguments cut through’”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     […] making the case that you cannot understand the climate crisis without understanding that there is an arch from slavery to colonialism and imperialism to the climate crisis … Now we are seeing those arguments cut through.

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut,‎ through.

• “cut through”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “cut through” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “cut through” (US) / “cut through” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “cut through sth”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.