Examples of use of cut to the quick
1. The person on the other end of the line did not bother with formalities, but instead cut to the quick.
2. She cut to the quick with any issue and proved herself a stateswoman of the highest order when seeking to negotiate the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement.
3. "She cut to the quick with any issue and proved herself a stateswoman of the highest order when seeking to negotiate the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement.
4. But judge Michael Baker, QC, said he had rejected his evidence as a "web of deceit", adding: "You painted yourself as a loving husband, cut to the quick by your wife‘s taunts about your mother and your claimed impotence.
5. She cut to the quick with any issue and proved herself a stateswoman of the highest order." Mitchell Reiss, the special envoy to Northern Ireland for the US president, George Bush, said÷ "Her memory will be honoured by all the people of Northern Ireland." Ask AristotleMo Mowlam