Sentence examples for cut and run from inspiring English sources

"cut and run" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to leaving a situation or place quickly and without warning. For example, "After their mistake was discovered, the criminals had no choice but to cut and run."

Idiom

Cut and run.

If people cut and run, they take what they can get and leave before they lose everything.

Dictionary

cut and run

verb

To sail away quickly by cutting the yarns that hold the sails furled.

Exact(51)

Time to cut and run.

"We cannot just cut and run.

This is cut and run".

Should we cut and run?

We can't cut and run.

"We can't just cut and run".

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The Republican leaders are stubbornly opposed to a cut-and-run strategy for solving Iraq's problems.

Formed Weyerhaeuser Co. Criticized for cut-and-run methods.

Do not let anyone suggest this was a cut-and-run Everton win.

So a "cut-and-run" critique on Afghanistan by Romney won't wash.

Even mentioning "timetables" gets you branded as a cut-and-run peacenik.

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