Figure fashioned from scissors

noun

1. Something cut out or off from something else
2. One that cuts out
3. An intermediary in a clandestine operation
4. A record album no longer in production that is sold at a discount

verb

1. To form by erosion
2. To determine or assign through necessity

   "you've got your work cut out for you"

3. To take the place of supplant
4. To put an end to desist from

   "cut out wasteful spending"

5. Deprive, defraud

   "cut him out of his share"

6. To remove from a series or circuit disconnect

   "cut out a car from a train"

7. To make inoperative
8. To depart in haste
9. To cease operating
10. To swerve out of a traffic line

adjective

1. Naturally fitted or suited

   "not cut out to be a vet"

idiom

1. Naturally able or suited to do or be (something)

   "Why do you think that you're cut out for this job?"

idiom

1. To form (something) out of (something) by cutting with a sharp tool

   "He cut a big heart out of a piece of red paper."

2. To remove (something) out of (something) by or as if by cutting

   "cutting articles out of the newspaper"

3. To cause (someone) to no longer be included in (something)

   "She cut all of her children out of her will and left everything to her grandchildren."

idiom

1. Be knocked down by something that hits one's legs very hard

   "When I learned that I was seriously ill, I felt as if my feet were cut out from under me."

idiom

1. Used to say that the thing a person needs to do is very difficult, and he or she will have to work very hard to achieve it