Hacker News Reader

Cutting Deals and Striking Bargains: The History of an Idiom

https://web.archive.org/web/20060920230602/https://www.csub....

By way of "Why do we 'cut' a deal?" https://english.stackexchange.com/q/284233

---

"Cuts " ... leads to the initial parsing of "cuts all ties with" or similar "severs relationship with".

When with additional modifiers between "cuts" and "deal" the "cuts deal with" becomes harder to recognize as the "forms a deal with" meaning of the phase.

I just had the same problem and thought there was a deal that was ended now.

Yeah, I was expecting outrage when I first clicked into the thread to glance at the comments, and then I was like "wait, why are people saying it's exciting?"

Don’t think I’ve ever seen the word “cut” used with “deal” in a negative sense. Cutting a deal always means you made a deal, not that one ended.

What about "we were cut from the deal"? It seems like you could make a phrase in which 'cut' means "to exclude"

Doesn’t sound natural to me, and I couldn’t find any examples online using that phrasing to mean someone was removed from a deal. You can be cut from a team, though.

GitHub sublates AI deals with Google, Anthropic