C
Idioms beginning with "C"
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[curry favor] {v.}
To flatter or serve someone to get his help or friendship.
Joe tried to curry favor with the new teacher by doing little services that she didn't really want.
* /Jim tried to curry favor with the new girl by telling her she was […]
[cut a class] {v. phr.}
To be truant; to deliberately miss a class and do something else instead.
"If you keep cutting classes the way you do, you will almost surely flunk this course," John's professor said to him.
[cut a figure] {v. phr.}
To make a favorable impression; carry off an activity with dignity and grace.
With his handsome face and sporty figure, Harry cuts quite a figure with all the ladies.
[cut across] {v.}
1. To cross or go through instead of going around; go a short way.
John didn't want to walk to the corner and turn, so he cut across the yard to the next street.
2. To go beyond to include; stretch over to act on; affect.
* […]
[cut-and-dried] {adj. phr.}
Decided or expected beforehand; following the same old line; doing the usual thing.
The decision of the judge was cut-and-dried.
The ways of the king's court were cut-and-dried.
* /People at the convention heard […]
[cut and run] {v.}, {informal}
To abandon an unfavorable situation.
When the price of coffee dropped sharply many investors wanted to cut and run.
[cut a swathe] {v. phr.}
1a. To mow a path through a field.
The farmer cut a swathe through the high grass with his scythe.
1b. To cut down as if by mowing.
The machine gun cut a swathe in the lines of enemy soldiers.
2. {informal}
To […]