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cut through [kat-glas]
Abrirse camino por entre (overcome). Cortar camino por, atajar por (take shortcut).

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cut through
verb:intransitive:plus_preposition
1 [+bone, cable] atravesar; traspasar
the sword cut through his protective gloves but he escaped injury A ROBBERY gang spent the night cutting through metal bars and a wall to get into a bank
 [+jungle, undergrowth] abrirse camino a través de
2 (take short cut via) atajar por; cortar por
to cut through the lane atajar or cortar por el callejón
3 (circumvent) saltarse; sortear
we have to find a way to cut through all this red tape hay que encontrar la manera de saltarse or sortear todo este papeleo
he cut through the waffle and got to the core of the problem

Collins Complete Spanish Electronic Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

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