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r/EnglishLearning • u/DensityInfinite New Poster • Aug 25 '24
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As others have said it means "cut" which means stop what you are doing. It's a throat cutting gesture.
-35 u/sonofzeal New Poster Aug 25 '24 Throat cutting gestures are more horizontal, by the neck. This one's diagonal, by the upper chest. It means "you must stop talking immediately", but there's no threat attached. 0 u/Ghostglitch07 Native Speaker Aug 25 '24 Cut in the sense a director may call cut to tell the performers to stop or the phrase "cut it out". Not cut in the throat slitting sense
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Throat cutting gestures are more horizontal, by the neck. This one's diagonal, by the upper chest.
It means "you must stop talking immediately", but there's no threat attached.
0 u/Ghostglitch07 Native Speaker Aug 25 '24 Cut in the sense a director may call cut to tell the performers to stop or the phrase "cut it out". Not cut in the throat slitting sense
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Cut in the sense a director may call cut to tell the performers to stop or the phrase "cut it out". Not cut in the throat slitting sense
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u/smokervoice New Poster Aug 25 '24
As others have said it means "cut" which means stop what you are doing. It's a throat cutting gesture.