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puhekieltä Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose.
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Im not really cut out for camping outdoors. I'm allergic to mosquito bites.''
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Weve got our work cut out for us.''
(&lit) To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
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Cut out the letters and paste them on the poster.
puhekieltä To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something).
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He had to cut out smoking in order to be prepared for the marathon
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She kept clicking her heels. He told her to cut it out.
1906, Princeton Alumni Weekly (volume 7, page 210)
- Hockey is an exciting and healthful form of exercise, well suited to college students, but if it is to retain favor the intercollegiate league should cut out the muckerism which has attended its contests on the ice in recent years.
puhekieltä To remove, omit.
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If we cut out the middle-man, we will both have better profits.
puhekieltä To oust, to replace.
puhekieltä To separate from a herd.
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The cowboy cut out the unbranded heifers.
puhekieltä To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
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It was around then that the engine suddenly cut out.
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Can you say that again? You keep cutting out.
puhekieltä To leave suddenly.
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He must have cut out of the party.
puhekieltä To arrange.
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He has his work cut out for him.
puhekieltä To intercept.
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