Cutting 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.a

Cutting 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.