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Cut (one) to the quick verb phrase
The quick is the very sensitive flesh under the fingernails or toenails.
To cause a deep wound in one's flesh, especially with a sharp tool such as a knife or scissors
Be careful! The shards of glass on the floor will cut you to the quick.
The sharp knife cut her to the quick.
To make one feel extremely upset, hurt or offended
I was cut to the quick by his sharp comments.
Their mean words cut her to the quick.
Beat someone up
To feel devastated because of a minor problem or accident
To intentionally and spitefully insult or show disrespect for someone
The verb "cut" must be conjugated according to its tense.
The word quick is used in this phrase to refer to a critical or extremely sensitive area of the body, such as under the fingernails. It also appears in older idioms like touched to the quick, which means "deeply affected," and stung to the quick, which means "wounded, disturbed," both of which date back to the early 1500s. Since around 1850, the modern statement has been regarded a cliché.
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1. To punch a hole in one's ticket to show that they have paid for a ride
2. To do something that allows one to go further in a competition or to be promoted at work
1. Please, tell me if I forget to punch your ticket.
2. With a view to punching my ticket to the final, I did whatever it takes to win this round.
