Definition
To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts.
In Context
- "The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm."
- "Do you know why Wendy's has square burgers? Because they don't cut corners."
- "To obtain that data, tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta have cut corners, ignored corporate policies and debated bending the law, according to an examination by The New York Times."
Also Said As
- skimp
- take short cuts
- follow the path of least resistance
- take the easy way out
- half-ass