We learned a new idiom “Cutting Corners” a few days ago. Do you know where the idiom comes from?

: : : Where did the phrase “Cutting Corners” come from?

: : It’s a metaphor from driving – not necessarily motor driving, because it also applies to horse-drawn carriages. When you come to a sharp turn in the road, instead of going all the way to the corner and then turning, you can go diagonally across, and “cut the corner off”. This saves time, but entails a risk of clipping the curb and overturning, or being involved in a pile-up with another vehicle. Thus “to cut corners” means to discard normal safe practice in order to get fast results.

from The Phrase Finder

Let’s watch the video clip to review the meaning and the origin, and look at more example sentences.