cut across

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Verb

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cut across (third-person singular simple present cuts across, present participle cutting across, simple past and past participle cut across)

  1. To take a shortcut over or through (a place).
    Synonym: cut through
  2. (figurative, by extension) To go through figurative barriers; to go beyond an expected boundary.