Wiktionary
short-cuts
n. (short-cut English)
Usage examples of "short-cuts".
It is easy to see that if Sellers’s life, from the age of five, consisted of similar short-cuts, by the time he was an adult he would lack the basic equipment to become a normal member of society.
But he felt from the beginning that life ‘owed’ him a better start than he had been offered, and the ‘logic of resentment’ drove him to increasingly ambitious attempts at short-cuts to the things he felt he deserved.
In an attempt to right the balance, he takes short-cuts to get what he wants.