Definition of "cut corners" in English

Verb

1. To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.

2. To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts.

   • The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.
   • Do you know why Wendy's has square burgers? Because they don't cut corners.