{"id":2023,"date":"2017-03-22T16:45:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2017-03-22T16:45:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:45:59","slug":"cut-it-close-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/cut-it-close-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut it close | English idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To cut it close<\/strong> is to barely manage a deadline. This expression can also be used to talk about working under a tight schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Read the sample conversation given below.<\/p>\n<h2>I&#8217;ve got a pretty tight schedule today!<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Varun: Hi Aryan, do you think we could have a talk sometime today?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Aryan: I wish we could, but I\u2019ve got a pretty tight schedule today!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Varun: Oh, so what have you got going on?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Aryan: Well, I\u2019ve to give a presentation at 10. That would keep me busy until 11.30. And then I\u2019ve to drive home, pick up my son and drop him at school. After that, I\u2019ve some important meetings over lunch. I guess I won\u2019t get a break until 5 o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Varun: Wow, that\u2019s<strong> cutting it close.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To cut it close is to barely manage a deadline. This expression can also be used to talk about working under a tight schedule. Read the sample conversation given below. I&#8217;ve got a pretty&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[424],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-cut-it-close"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}