cut the crap
English edit
Etymology edit
American English, 1930s.
Verb edit
cut the crap (third-person singular simple present cuts the crap, present participle cutting the crap, simple past and past participle cut the crap)
- (vulgar) To stop prevaricating or lying.
- Synonyms: cut the crud, cut the bullshit, cut to the chase, cut the shit
- 1951, J. D. Salinger, chapter 14, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 133:
- “I told you about ten times, I don't owe you a cent. I already gave her the five–” “Cut the crap, now. Let's have it.”