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SHORT CUT

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short cut substantiv

(text.) cută, pliu, încreţitură.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

This second one leads by means of a second small stair to a side door, used by servants, and also as a short cut by clerks when coming from Charles Street.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Instead of taking the short cut along the Sound we went down the road and entered by the big postern.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Of course, we always have the optician clue to fall back upon, but I take a short cut when I can get it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You see that blasted redwood? Take the little trail turning off to the right. It's the short cut to her house. You can't miss it."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

No Gytrash was this,—only a traveller taking the short cut to Millcote.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

All that she could tell she told most gladly, but the all was little for one who had been there, and unsatisfactory for such an enquirer as Mrs Smith, who had already heard, through the short cut of a laundress and a waiter, rather more of the general success and produce of the evening than Anne could relate, and who now asked in vain for several particulars of the company.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

A child on the watch, came towards them to beg; and Miss Bickerton, excessively frightened, gave a great scream, and calling on Harriet to follow her, ran up a steep bank, cleared a slight hedge at the top, and made the best of her way by a short cut back to Highbury.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented place that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village—appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short cut from nothing to nothing.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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