cut off a corner
English
Verb
cut off a corner
- To take a shortcut.
- 1833, Sporting Magazine (volume 6, page 400)
- Pioneer seemed now to have the game in his own hands; but the Captain, by taking two desperate leaps, cut off a corner, by which he regained the ground he had lost by the fall, and was up with the grey the remainder of the chase.
- 1833, Sporting Magazine (volume 6, page 400)