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Cut corners

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Verb
  1. 1
    To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.

    "[…] but I believe the old man did not ride fair, as he cut corners and joined in with them again […]"

  2. 2
    do something the cheapest or easiest way wordnet
  3. 3
    To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts. idiomatic

    "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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