Go over something

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plan or

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even a business proposal so it means to

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review and look at in detail to make

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sure there's no problems hmm so if you

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want somebody to check something at work

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you might say can you go over this for

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me I'm not sure about these numbers

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could you go over the figures perfect

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example yes figures to cut corners to

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cut corners an idiom that kind of means

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the opposite is to cut corners so to cut

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corners means to reduce the amount of

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time or money spent on doing something

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and often it ends up that you don't do

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such a good job because you cut corners

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exactly so for example if you cut

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corners when you're a student learning

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English you might get someone else to

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help you write your essays yep you go

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the quick way but it might not

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necessarily mean that you do such a good

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job or that you learn as much how would

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we use it in business laila in business

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you might try and cut corners when it

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comes to a project that you are

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investing in so you might want to save

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some money and maybe not have as many

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members of staff that you need which

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means that the job really isn't as good

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as it should be so generally it's a bit

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of a negative thing guys to cut corners

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I hope you guys aren't doing that thanks

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so