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Cut a dash.
If someone cuts a dash, their clothes and appearance makes an impression on people.
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In a city where appearances are paramount, Phil Mickelson cut a dashing figure on arrival Wednesday.
But she does cut a dashing figure in her silver Spandex action suit.
Zouaves cut a dashing figure on the parade ground, but the uniform seemed a magnet for bullets on the battlefield.
(Later, Mayor writes, she "cut a dashing figure in her signature trousers, at once shocking and fabulous, which also fueled her Amazonian image").
He cut a dashing figure in his fatigues and red beret, and peasants at all-night rallies found his oratory entrancing.
The photographer, who was nearly 52, had the foamy beard and fierce eyebrows of an ayatollah, and cut a dashing figure in evening dress.
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He cuts a dashing figure and certainly does not lack for energy.
On the conductor's podium Mr. Jurowski cuts a dashing figure with the uncompromising straight posture of a ballet master.
While he usually cuts a dashing figure in Indian films, Hollywood directors, impressed by his gift for nuance, have mostly cast Mr. Khan in Everyman roles.
A former Peruvian marine officer and a mining engineer, Mr. Cabrera cuts a dashing figure in tan fatigues with a long knife strapped to his waist.
The actor cuts a dashing figure in a black suit with tails for his new role as the art historian Simon Bricker, a house guest of the Grantham family, in the forthcoming fifth series of Julian Fellowes' period drama.
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