cut corners

Verb

 * 1) To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.
 * 2) * 1882, Dan Seffert, quoted in “Half Hours with Dan Seffert”, in Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 39, page 275:
 * but I believe the old man did not ride fair, as he cut corners and joined in with them again
 * 1)  To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts.
 * 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.

Synonyms

 * , take short cuts, follow the path of least resistance, take the easy way out, half-ass

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French: prendre des raccourcis
 * Indonesian: memintas, cari singkat
 * Italian: prendere delle scorciatoie
 * Portuguese:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:, , mennä sieltä mistä aita on matalin, mennä yli siitä mistä aita on matalin, tinkiä laadusta, käyttää helpointa tapaa
 * French: (Quebec)
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian: berhemat, pelit modal
 * Japanese:
 * Polish: iść na skróty
 * Portuguese: gambiarrar