cut at someone or an animal
- cut at someone or an animal
cut at someone or an animal
to thrust a knife or something similar at someone or an animal. •
The hoodlum cut at me, but I dodged the blade.
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He cut at the dog, but it had no effect on the vicious animal.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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