cut to ribbons
Related to cut to ribbons: ribands
cut (someone or something) to ribbons
1. Literally, to badly cut or gash someone or something. Kids, get away from the broken window—all that glass could cut you to ribbons!
2. To judge or criticize someone or something harshly. I thought I had done a good job on the project, but my boss just cut me to ribbons, pointing out every little thing I had overlooked.
See also: cut, ribbon
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
cut someone to ribbons
1. Lit. to cut or slice someone severely. He broke a mirror and the glass cut his hand to ribbons.
2. Fig. to criticize someone severely. The critics just cut her acting to ribbons!
See also: cut, ribbon
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- cut (someone or something) to ribbons
- cut something to ribbons
- cut with
- cut (someone or something) with (something)
- cut (something) on (something)
- cut eyes at
- cut eyes at (someone or something)
- cut out for, to be
- cut (oneself) on (something)
- cut on