cut corners

to do a half -ssed job.

make money-saving decisions on a project at significant expense of quality.
bob decided to cut corners by building his boat out of cheap plywood instead of reinforced carbon-fibre.
to do something with less than the appropriate amount of care. possibly from the practice of taking a short cut when running around a city block, effectively cuting off a corner of the route.
if they hadn’t cut so many corners when building that bridge, it probably wouldn’t have fallen down.
to do a really half -ssed job
billy cut corners to save money on building the house
to take a shortcut. sometimes refers to doing something more quickly or for a lesser cost, but at a lesser quality.
in order to save time, some workers cut corners and don’t wash their hands after going to the bathroom.

the manager told the cashier, “when selling cigarettes, you cannot cut corners. you must check their id.”
originally used in travel terminology, as “to take a shortcut” (ie, p-ss by the corners, since cutting along any alternative path is faster than going all the way round the d-mn corner).

used more frequently to mean skipping the hard stuff, use the easy way.
exercise? you’re kidding me, right?
i’d much rather cut corners and just get liposuction on this flab o’ mine.

if you cut corners in school, you’ll never learn the entire sh-tload.
to perform a task in the quickest and easiest way, in another word, the american way.
we call cut corners as effective time management or etm for short, it cuts corners.
when you have to do something, and in order to finish it faster you leave some parts out. this is usually negative and -ssociated with cheating.
the history report was due on monday so maya cut corners by leaving out the time line.

robert was supposed to run around the entire track but he cut corners by taking a shortcut and not going around the corners. (i believe this is where the term is derived from)