cut corners

1. 1.

   do something the cheapest or easiest way

   “Cut corners to make a cheaper product”

   Broaderperform

Questions about cut corners

What does cut corners mean?

cut corners means "do something the cheapest or easiest way".

Is cut corners a common word?

cut corners is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.