cutting through
Piercing right through
Cutting through means penetrating or bypassing obstacles to reach something directly.
A knife cuts through bread; a shortcut cuts through a neighborhood.
Figuratively, it means getting past complexity or distraction to what matters: Her question cut through the noise.
To cut through red tape is to bypass bureaucratic obstacles.
Someone who cuts through nonsense dispenses with pretense.
- cutSeverance or reduction
- red tapeBureaucratic obstacles to action
- ego dissolutionDisappearance of personal identity
- spiritual liberationRelease from worldly suffering
- non-dualityAbsence of fundamental division
clarity · clear the air · bypass · incision · streamline · shortcut · mind training · awakening · no-nonsense · laser focus · transcendence · penetrate · cleave · pierce · resolve · untangle · nirvana · insight
- piercingpierce, piercing, puncture, puncturing, stab
- travel verbscrossing, walking, hiking, trekking, journeying
- trespassingtrespasser, criminal trespass, illegal entry, unlawful entry, no trespassing
cutting throughgoing around
Moving in orbit
circumnavigating · taking the long way · detouring · skirting · meandering
cutting throughskirting around
Avoiding by going around
avoiding · going around · deflecting · bypassing · circumventing
cutting throughmuddying
Making less clear
obscuring · obfuscating · clouding · confusing · complicating
cutter, cutters, cutting, cuttings, through, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughness