cut the crap
verbEtymology American English, 1930s.
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Often, Vulgar To stop prevaricating or lying.
- “I told you about ten times, I don't owe you a cent. I already gave her the five–” “Cut the crap, now. Let's have it.”1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 14, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 133:
- Related terms
- beat around the bush