cut the crap

cut the crap

1. rude slang To stop trying to be deceptive. Often used as an imperative. Cut the crap—I know you're lying to me. Look, can we cut the crap and call this what it is? I'm being fired, not "reallocated."
2. rude slang To stop fooling around. Often used as an imperative. We'll never get this room painted unless you guys cut the crap and start working!
See also: crap, cut
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cut the crap

get to the point; state the real situation. vulgar slang
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

cut the ˈcrap

(taboo, slang) used to tell somebody in an impolite way to stop talking about unimportant things or talking nonsense and get to the main point: Cut the crap and tell me what you really think, OK?
See also: crap, cut
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

Cut the crap!

exclam. Stop the nonsense! (Usually objectionable.) Cut the crap. Talk straight or get out.
See also: cut
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • Cut the crap!
  • cut eyes at
  • cut eyes at (someone or something)
  • cut the comedy
  • cut a fat hog
  • cut out for, to be
  • cut down to
  • cut (something) down to (something)
  • take a crap
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Facing up to the realities of life, they have cut the crap in favour of the facts.
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In February he issued staff with football-style yellow cards urging them to "cut the crap".
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CUT the Crap - and head to Mas for their new Sunday night.
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They should take one last look at Audley Harrison and then cut the crap.
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But I would like to suggest amendments to his new catchphrase, Cut the Crap, Make It Happen.
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Swinney quoted him as saying he would "cut the crap" as Labour's new leader - and wondered if the five Cabinet colleagues he got rid of had been the crap.
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MIRROR: Can't we cut the crap and make it happen here?
Let's cut the crap Greg.. your Cut The Crap idea to save the Beeb is a load of,er.. CRAP; MIRROR GIRL SHOWS BBC BOSS YELLOW CARD