cut the crap

verb

To stop prevaricating or lying.

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cut the crudcut the bullshitcut to the chasecut the shit
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Meanings

verbcut the crap (third-person singular simple present cuts the crap, present participle cutting the crap, simple past and past participle cut the crap)

present singular third person cuts the crap · participle present cutting the crap

  1. oftenvulgarTo stop prevaricating or lying.

    “I told you about ten times, I don't owe you a cent. I already gave her the five–” “Cut the crap, now. Let's have it.”

    1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 14, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 133

    Synonyms: cut the crud, cut the bullshit, cut to the chase, cut the shit

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo stop prevaricating or lying.

Similar
cut the crudcut the bullshitcut to the chasecut the shit

Origin

American English, 1930s.

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