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This is the Rachel’s English 30-day phrasal verb challenge.
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Learn 30 phrasal verbs in 30 days.
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Jumpstart your vocabulary in 2017.
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Today is day 4 and we’re finishing up ‘cut’ phrasal verbs.
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Yesterday we started this phrasal verb, but the topic is so big, we cut the video in two.
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Today, we’ll start with ‘cut in’.
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‘Cut in’ has a couple of definitions.
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You can cut in when someone is speaking, interrupt them.
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You can also cut into traffic with your car.
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Someone cut in front of me.
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Or a line.
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Don’t you hate it when you’ve been waiting in line for something for a while and then
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someone cuts in towards the front?
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Not fair!
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If you cut somebody in, that means you let them in on a deal or a profit of some sort.
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Money.
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He cut his brother-in-law in on the deal.
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If you cut into something, that means you slice it, with a knife, but you don’t slice
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into two parts.
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You just cut into it.
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It can also happen from your clothing or environment in a way that’s uncomfortable: this shoe
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is cutting into my foot, or this bench is cutting into my back.
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It doesn’t mean it’s actually cutting through your skin in these cases.
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It can also mean to take up too much of something.
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All of these emails are cutting into my free time.
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Cut off: multiple uses.
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To cut someone off is to interrupt.
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If someone is telling you a long story and you don’t want to hear it, or you know what
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they’re going to say, might say, “I’m going to cut you off right there.”
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Or you could say, she cut me off in the middle of a sentence.
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It can also mean to stop providing for someone.
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My parents cut me off.
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They said I need to get a job!
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It can also mean to end a relationship.
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I cut it off with Bob.
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He talks way too much.
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Also, with traffic.
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This is just like ‘cut in’.
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She cut in front of me, she cut me off.
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If you cut something off, it’s like to cut away, you remove something with a knife or
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other sharp tool.
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Van Gogh cut off his ear.
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Cut out.
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If something stops working.
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The radio cut out.
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If it sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t, like there’s a lose connection, you can
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say, “the radio keeps cutting in and out.”
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Have you ever heard the phrase “cut out the middle man?”
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What’s that mean?
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That means you can buy something directly from the business that is making that thing.
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Not from a store that bought the item from the maker, that’s a middle man.
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The price goes up if you buy something from a business who bought it from another business.
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There has probably been a mark up in price.
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That’s a bonus phrasal verb for today, mark up.
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So if you cut out the middle man, that means you don’t include or involve that person.
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And that generally means what you’re buying is going to be cheaper.
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To cut out can mean to stop doing something.
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I’ve cut out sugar: that means I don’t eat sugar anymore.
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Have you ever heard “cut it out!”
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This means “stop it!
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Stop doing that.”
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You can say that when someone is pestering you, annoying you.
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Cut it out.
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There’s also a phrase, you have your work cut out for you.
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That means, wow, there’s a lot to do.
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Or what you need to do is really hard.
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It’s going to take me weeks to translate all this—I have my work cut out for me.
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Not cut out can mean not fit, not having the qualities to do something.
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She’s not cut out to be a teacher.
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Cut down, cut up, cut back, cut across, cut through, cut away, cut in, cut into, cut off,
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and cut out.
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That’s a lot.
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And so many ways to use these verbs!
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I hope studying this verb doesn’t cut into your other studies too much.
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The word CUT is pronounced with the K consonant sound, the UH as in BUTTER vowel, and the
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T. Kk, touch the back of the tongue to the soft palate and release, cu-.
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For the UH vowel, relax everything, uh, , cu-, let the resonance of the voice fall low, uh,
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down here.
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Uh, cu-.
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The pronunciation of the T sound depends on the word after it.
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If the next word begins with a vowel, make that a Flap T, like in ‘cut across’.
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Cut a-, cut a-, cut a-.
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Just bounce the tongue against the roof of the mouth, don’t stop the air, cut a-, cut
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across.
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If the next word begins with a consonant, then a Stop T will sound great here, like
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in the phrase “cut back”.
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Cut back, cut, stop the air, cut back, cut back.
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You don’t release the T, you don’t hear a T sound.
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What you hear is an abrupt stop, the the next word.
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Cut back, cut back.
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