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A case where "cut" is its own antonym, and its unclear which sense is meant from the headline alone.
by kleton 2y ago
A case where "cut" is its own antonym, and its unclear which sense is meant from the headline alone.
- echoangle 2y agoI just had the same problem and thought there was a deal that was ended now.
- jacobgkau 2y agoYeah, I was expecting outrage when I first clicked into the thread to glance at the comments, and then I was like "wait, why are people saying it's exciting?"
- keiferski 2y agoDon’t think I’ve ever seen the word “cut” used with “deal” in a negative sense. Cutting a deal always means you made a deal, not that one ended.
- JulianChastain 2y agoWhat about "we were cut from the deal"? It seems like you could make a phrase in which 'cut' means "to exclude"
- keiferski 2y agoDoesn’t sound natural to me, and I couldn’t find any examples online using that phrasing to mean someone was removed from a deal. You can be cut from a team, though.
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- shagie 2y agoCutting Deals and Striking Bargains: The History of an Idiom https://web.archive.org/web/20060920230602/https://www.csub.edu/~bjones/cut-deal.txt https://web.archive.org/web/20060920230602/https://www.csub.... By way of "Why do we 'cut' a deal?" https://english.stackexchange.com/q/284233 https://english.stackexchange.com/q/284233 --- "Cuts " ... leads to the initial parsing of "cuts all ties with" or similar "severs relationship with". When with additional modifiers between "cuts" and "deal" the "cuts deal with" becomes harder to recognize as the "forms a deal with" meaning of the phase.
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