Talk:cut it out

cut it out
AFAICT, there is nothing about "it" in this expression that gives any merit to a separate entry for it apart from cut out, which is still short a half-dozen senses. DCDuring TALK 19:03, 16 July 2010 (UTC)


 * It's been a common American idiom since c. 1900 (see e.g. The American Heritage dictionary of idioms which refers the reader to its entry for cut it and not cut out as a source). I would also suggest that cut it out qualifies as an interjection in its common usage, perhaps more so than as a verb, and would qualify for a separate entry on that basis as well. Mike McL 10:37, 19 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I doubt it qualifies as an interjection. Even mainly-imperative verbs that stop being used outside the plain form, still stay in use as infinitives in indirect imperatives ("he told her to cut it out", "she warned him to beware the Ides of March", etc.), which IMHO demonstrates that they're still just verbs. —Ruakh TALK 22:14, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Would that we had criteria for a phrasebook. This seems like it might be a candidate. DCDuring TALK 19:42, 22 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I say delete cut it out, and let the usage example I just added to cut out suffice. - -sche (discuss) 01:59, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

deleted -- Liliana • 06:27, 23 July 2011 (UTC)