CUT SOMEONE DEAD Definition & Meaning

cut someone dead

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Pretend not to see or recognize someone, as in “Any fellow was to be cut dead by the entire school” (Benjamin Disraeli, Vivien Grey , 1826). This idiom, in the first half of the 1600s, began as to cut one; in the early 1800s dead was added for greater emphasis.

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cut someone dead

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