to cut one's losses
1cut one's losses — {v. phr.} To stop spending time, money, or energy on unprofitable projects and concentrate on what goes well. * / Just cut your losses, Jim, his father suggested, and get on with the rest of your life. / …
2cut one's losses — {v. phr.} To stop spending time, money, or energy on unprofitable projects and concentrate on what goes well. * / Just cut your losses, Jim, his father suggested, and get on with the rest of your life. / …
3cut one's losses — phrasal : to withdraw (as from an enterprise) and accept current losses in order to prevent further loss * * * cut one s losses To have done with an unprofitable venture • • • Main Entry: ↑cut * * * abandon an enterprise or course of action that… …
4cut one’s losses — tv. to do something to stop a loss of something. □ I knew I had to do something to cut my losses, but it was almost too late. □ Sell some of the high priced stuff to cut your losses …
5Cut one's losses — abandon a project in which one has already invested some part of one s capital, either material or emotional, for no return, so as not to incur more losses …
6cut one's losses — Australian Slang abandon a project in which one has already invested some part of one s capital, either material or emotional, for no return, so as not to incur more losses …
7cut\ one's\ losses — v. phr. To stop spending time, money, or energy on unprofitable projects and concentrate on what goes well. Just cut your losses, Jim, his father suggested, and get on with the rest of your life …
8cut one's losses — verb To discontinue an effort that seems unlikely ever to bear fruit …
9cut one's losses — If you end or withdraw from something that is already failing, in order to reduce the loss of money, time or effort invested in it …
10cut one's losses — to end or withdraw from a bad situation which can only get worse (loss cutting) …
