Crossword clues for cut and run
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context nautical English) To sail away quickly by cutting the yarns that hold the sails furled. 2 (context by extension English) To hurry away; to escape. 3 (context military English) To abandon a position as quickly as possible.
Wikipedia
Cut and run or cut-and-run is an idiomatic verb phrase meaning to "make off promptly" or to "hurry off". The phrase originated in the 1700s as describing an act allowing a ship to make sail quickly in an urgent situation, either by cutting free an anchor or by cutting ropeyarns to unfurl sails from the yards on a square rig ship. Though initially referring to a literal act, the phrase was used figuratively by the mid-1800s in both the United States and England. The phrase is used as a pejorative in political language, implying a panicked and cowardly retreat, and it has been used by politicians in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia as a criticism of calls to withdraw troops, becoming particularly associated with the United States Republican Party.
Cut and run is a phrase meaning to "hurry off" typically used pejoratively in politics in reference to withdrawing troops from a conflict.
Cut and run may also refer to:
- Cut and Run (film), a 1985 Italian film
Inferno in diretta, internationally released as Cut and Run and Amazon: Savage Adventure, is a 1985 Italian cannibal film directed by Ruggero Deodato.
Usage examples of "cut and run".
I thought, things go wrong, I can always just cut and run, no problem.
That can easily happen, you know, when you're an old man with a shaky wrist and a cloudy eye, too stiff in the joints even to cut and run.
I mean, even in disguise, you never know - I might have to cut and run, and I'd rather have two sound pins for that, what?
It was like walking with a badly wound up clockwork doll as we descended to the street, but once we were out in the sunshine and the chattering Broadway crowds she became easier, possibly because I showed no tendency to cut and run or bawl for a copper.
The leader who got 'em in this mess would never be able to show his face at a dance if he just cut and run.
When the numbers start moving into the neighborhood of five to one against you, it's time to cut and run, I always say.
And that's why I called ever'body together, now: We need to talk this whole thing out and figure what's going to be the best for us to do-cut and run up to that valley up or stand and fight the fuckers off here, then go up ttf the valley.