English phrasal verbs with the word 'cut': cut off, cut in, cut back, cut down and cut out
Channel: Real English Fluency Now with Trisha and Hope
Date: 2018-03-09

In this English lesson you will learn some phrasal verbs that use the word 'cut': cut off and cut in and you will find out how to learn cut back, cut down and cut out.

Practice making sentences in the comments with either cut off, cutoff or cut in!

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*** English Lesson Notes / transcript:  ***

In today’s lesson you will learn phrasal verbs that use the word ‘cut’.
Let’s get started!
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Hello Real Fluency Friends! I’m Trisha and I’m here to teach 
you Real English used in Real Life so you can reach Real Fluency! Now! 

And today I will teach you the phrasal verbs cut off, cut in and cut through.  And I’ll tell you how you can learn cut back, cut down and cut out.

Cut off
1) remove with knife or scissors or to separate from something usually connected or related
Maybe I’ll cut off some of my hair.
Can be separable:
I’ll just cut a little bit of it off. 

2) to stop or shut off suddenly

They cut off the water after the storm.

3) to interrupt or intercept

A car cut me off when I was driving home and I almost had an accident because of it.

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Cutoff (or cut-off) – noun or adjective

1) deadline
Adj.  The cutoff date for becoming a member at the sale price is at midnight tonight.

Noun  The cutoff for becoming a member at the sale price is at midnight tonight.

2) related to stopping something
You should know where the water cutoff valve is in case you need to shut off your water in a hurry.  

3) shorts that have been cut from longer pants.

These are some old cutoff jean shorts of mine, but really they were made this way to look like they were cut from jeans.  

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Cut in

1) interrupt and try to join a conversation

We were talking, but he kept cutting in.

2) to stop two people who are dancing and take the place of one of them.  For example, if a man wants to dance with a woman who is already dancing with someone else, he might say:
 “May I cut in?”
You might hear it used this way in an old movie or tv show, it is or at least was considered a polite thing to do, sometimes. 

3) to include someone in a group of people getting money.  You might hear this in a movie or tv show too, especially with people doing something illegal.

They almost killed him after he suggested they cut him in on the profits from the drugs they were smuggling.
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If you want to learn cut back, cut down and cut out – I didn’t include them in this lesson  but I teach them in the online English course that I made.  You can learn more about it here: 

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Practice Exercises
Fill in the blanks with either cut off, cutoff or cut in:
1) I can’t believe he was so rude!  We were having a nice conversation when he just suddenly ___ __!

2) I’ll ___ ___  a little bit and save it for later. 

3) The ______  time for entering the contest was yesterday at noon.


Homework

Make a sentence in the comments with either cut off, cutoff or cut in.

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