be cutting it fine

To be doing something with a very narrow margin for error or deviation. Having only $20 in your bank account is cutting it fine, if you ask me.

be cutting it fine

be cutting it close

If you are cutting it fine or cutting it close, you only leave yourself just enough time to do something. Could we leave as late as five o'clock or would that be cutting it fine? They didn't plan to get it to us until six o' clock, and that's cutting it a little close.

词组	be cutting it fine
释义	be cutting it fine be cutting it fine To be doing something with a very narrow margin for error or deviation. Having only $20 in your bank account is cutting it fine, if you ask me. See also: cutting, fine Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. be cutting it fine or be cutting it close If you are cutting it fine or cutting it close, you only leave yourself just enough time to do something. Could we leave as late as five o'clock or would that be cutting it fine? They didn't plan to get it to us until six o' clock, and that's cutting it a little close. See also: cutting, fine Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. See also: cut it fine cut it/things fine be knee-deep in in error boggle at boggle at (something) schoolboy schoolboy error fall into error do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars
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