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cut one's losses



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Idioms and Phrases

Withdraw from a losing situation, as in They decided to close down the unprofitable branch and cut their losses . This expression uses cut in the sense of “reduce” (also see cut down , def. 2).
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Example Sentences

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Instead, the movie is a bust, and, as usual in these situations, it is easier to say how than why, and best to say as little as possible, cut one’s losses and move on.

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Another capitalist rule of thumb, after all, is that there comes a time to cut one's losses.

"One must sometimes cut one's losses."

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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