Cut and Shrug off

Cut

Cut verb - To deliberately ignore or treat rudely.
Usage example: the snobbish lady cut anyone who didn't meet her standards of wealth and social standing

Shrug off and cut are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shrug off" instead a verb "Cut".

Nearby Words: cutting, cutter, cutout

Shrug off

Shrug off verb - To dismiss as of little importance.

Cut and shrug off are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cut" instead a verb "Shrug off".

Both terms in one sentence

  • Comic Book / Über Tanks for Nothing: The "tank" Übers cut through actual tanks with ease, and the "battleships" can shrug off direct hits from tank shells without even flinching.
  • Anime / Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Improbable Aiming Skills: Yazoo, who shoots Cloud's sunglasses off his face at point blank range and gives him only a tiny cut on the forehead, though it's more due to Cloud's ability to shrug off a bullet to the forehead.
  • Fan Fic / Queen of All Oni When the blindfold Jade starts wearing following the encounter with Lung allows her to shrug off an onion to the face, she gloats about it, only for Viper to throw a cut up piece of onion into her mouth, shutting her up by leaving her sick for a bit.
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