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Cut corners.
If people try to do something as cheaply or as quickly as possible, often sacrificing quality, they are cutting corners.
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But I think he cuts corners".
Not that every steak joint in Las Vegas cuts corners.
Spielberg rushes; he cuts corners and takes the edge off plot points.
The show is often as elegant as a big-budget production, but it cuts corners here and there.
Sorkin hardly cuts corners, either; his work, beginning with A Few Good Men in 1992, is always rich with detail.
So in remembering his youth he fibs and cuts corners, whitewashing the past until the garishly bright Miami he grew up in starts to appear inoffensively, suspiciously sepia.
Similar(23)
They may cut corners.
And never, ever cut corners.
I no longer cut corners.
You can't cut corners".
Did they cut corners?
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