cutting through

Verb

cut through (third-person singular simple present cuts through, present participle cutting through, simple past and past participle cut through)

1. (transitive) To take a shortcut through.
   • I usually cut through the woods to get home, but last night it was too dark.

   Synonyms:

   cut across

2. (idiomatic, transitive) To dispense with or quickly deal with (an issue that is seen as an obstruction or waste of time).
   • Can we cut through the bureaucracy and make a decision on the spot?
3. (figuratively) To reach (an audience etc.).
   • […] making the case that you cannot understand the climate crisis without understanding that there is an arch from slavery to colonialism and imperialism to the climate crisis … Now we are seeing those arguments cut through.2021 December 27, Matthew Taylor, quoting Asad Rehman, “Asad Rehman on climate justice: ‘Now we are seeing these arguments cut through’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, through.