Idiom: To cut the corner
Sometimes cutting corners is okay. It might simply mean finding a quicker way to do something. However, there is often a lost of quality in the work achieved. Sometimes, the idiom “to cut a corner” has a negative connotation. It simply means cheating.
Runners know all about cutting corners. There is nothing more annoying than seeing a runner up ahead cutting a corner on a clearly marked course.
You cut a corner and win; you cheat and achieve your goal. What have you got? A goal and a lost soul. I’m not talking about hell here folks! I am talking about not being true to your innermost self.
The prophet Jesus of Nazareth put it well “What does it profit a person if he/she gains the whole world and yet loses his/her soul”.
Shakespeare took it up in King Lear when Polonius advises Laertes “This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man” (Act 1, sc 3).
Sometimes cutting corners is okay. It might simply mean finding a quicker way to do something. However, there is often a lost of quality in the work achieved. Sometimes, the idiom “to cut a corner” has a negative connotation. It simply means cheating.
Runners know all about cutting corners. There is nothing more annoying than seeing a runner up ahead cutting a corner on a clearly marked course.
You cut a corner and win; you cheat and achieve your goal. What have you got? A goal and a lost soul. I’m not talking about hell here folks! I am talking about not being true to your innermost self.
The prophet Jesus of Nazareth put it well “What does it profit a person if he/she gains the whole world and yet loses his/her soul”.
Shakespeare took it up in King Lear when Polonius advises Laertes “This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man” (Act 1, sc 3).
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