cut across
verb- To take a shortcut over or through (a place).
- To go through figurative barriers; to go beyond an expected boundary. · Teachers tried to cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries in their lessons.
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They went over to Orchard Slope by the short cut across the brook and up the firry hill grove.
He swam to the cap, placed it on his head, seized one of the timbers, and struck out so as to cut across the course the vessel was taking.
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