| 词汇 | cut the painter |
| 词源 | cut the painter. A painter is the rope by which a ship’s boat can be tied to the vessel, a buoy, or a dock, and the word ulti- mately derives from the Latin pendere, “to hang.” Thus to cut the painter, a phrase much used in the 19th century, came to mean “to sever all connection with something.” |
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