to cut out sugar
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- phrasal verb
- /kʌt aʊt ˈʃʌɡər/
:
eliminar el azúcar
- I cut out sugar in my life so I don't know how these got there.
I cut out sugar in my life so I don't know how these got there.
- I cut out sugar in my life so I don't know how these got there.
- You don't have to pay thousands of dollars for some program or whatever to just eat vegetables, cut out sugar and bread and milk and you're good.
Examples
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To lose weight effectively, it is essential to cut out sugar from your meals.
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Cut out sugar (soda mainly) and processed food.
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Cut out sugar.
Blog text (8) -
This time around, though, she's cutting out sugar and seeing a reiki healer.
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You don't have to pay thousands of dollars for some program or whatever to just eat vegetables, cut out sugar and bread and milk and you're good.
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I decided to cut out sugar from my diet to improve my health.
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Doctors often recommend that patients cut out sugar to manage diabetes.
Synonyms
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To choose not to take something, often for health or religious reasons
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to stop consuming sugar' is directly and compositionally derived from 'cut' (remove/reduce) plus the particle 'out' (remove/stop) applied to 'sugar'. This phrasal-verb pattern is common in English and mirrored in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Cut out sugar comes from the simple image of removing something with scissors or a knife: to cut out is to take away a part, like cutting a piece from a cake or a word from a list. So, saying you cut out sugar means you 'stop consuming sugar' by removing sugar from your food and diet.