cut

cut your teeth (on sth)
to get your first experience of doing something and learn the basic skills
Both reporters cut their journalistic teeth on the same provincial newspaper.

cut in line
AmE to unfairly go in front of other people who are waiting to do something

cut the ...
spoken an impolite way of telling someone to stop doing something because it is annoying you

Cut the crap (=stop saying something that is not true)

cut your losses
to stop doing something that is failing, so that you do not waste any more money, time, or effort

cut a fine/strange etc figure
literary to have an impressive, strange etc appearance

(it) cuts both ways
spoken used to say that something has two effects, especially a good effect and a bad one

not cut it informal
to not be good enough to do something
Players who can't cut it soon quit the team.

cut in on
to interrupt someone who is speaking by saying something
Sorry to cut in on you, but there are one or two things I don't understand.
to suddenly drive in front of a moving car in a dangerous way
She cut in on a red Ford, forcing the driver to brake heavily.

A lot of donations that don't make the cut for the sale are donated to Goodwill.
make the cut----To meet or come up to a required standard