cut the dusttv. to take a drink of liquor.
I think I’ll stop in here and cut the dust.
I want to cut the dust. Can I have a
snort?
cut the mustard 1. tv. to be able to do
something requiring youth or vigor.
(Usually in the expression too old to cut
the mustard.) Do you really think he
can cut the mustard? She’s not too old to
cut the mustard. 2. Go to cut the cheese.
cut to the chasein. to focus on what is
important; to abandon the preliminaries
and deal with the major points. All
right, let’s stop the idle chatter and cut
to the chase. After a few introductory
comments, we cut to the chase and began
negotiating.cut (up)mod. having well-defined abdom-
inal muscles. Greg is really cut up. He
works out every day. Andy works hard
to try to get a gut that’s cut.cut up (about someone or something)
mod. emotionally upset about someone
or something. She was all cut up about
her divorce. You could see how cut up
she was.cuz[k@z] n. cousin. (Old colloquial.) I’ve
got to go to Denver to visit my cuz. My
cuz came to visit for the weekend.cut the dust