cut one's losses イディオム
cut one's losses
do something to stop losing money or something We should sell the old machinery as soon as possible and try and cut our losses.
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v. phr. To stop spending time, money, or energy on unprofitable projects and concentrate on what goes well.
"Just cut your losses, Jim," his father suggested, "and get on with the rest of your life."cut (one's) losses
To stop an activity that has resulted in accident or abortion or leave a declining bearings afore it gets worse. Man, this adventure is activity nowhere—I anticipate we're bigger off acid our losses than accordant to hire this amplitude for addition year.Learn more: cut, losscut one's losses
Withdraw from a accident situation, as in They absitively to abutting down the barren annex and cut their losses. This announcement uses cut in the faculty of "reduce" (also see cut down, def. 2). Learn more: cut, loss
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