Meanings (ES + gloss)
acorzar • alcorzar • atajar • atrechar • atrochar
To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.
[…] but I believe the old man did not ride fair, as he cut corners and joined in with them again […]
atajar • cicatear • escatimar • pichicatear • retacear • tacañear
To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts.
Do you know why Wendy's has square burgers? Because they don't cut corners.
The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.
Phrases
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