cutting your losses

to extricate yourself from an impossible situation, where there is very little or no hope for improvement.

similiar to cashing in your chips, however, when one cuts their losses, it usually means that they are walking away with nothing to show for their efforts, and are getting out before they have to endure even more loss.
cutting your losses:

The U.S. Government eventually decided to cut its losses with regard to the Vietnam War, and by the early 1970s withdrew all of its military forces from Southeast Asia.
by Bungalow Bill October 13, 2005
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Cut to the quick

Man you really cut to the quick, my ass hurts like the dickens, just like that time Mac Brown cut me to the quick!
by anal n gus August 31, 2008
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One of those bullshit rhymes you said back in elementary school when some cock-juggling thundercunt decided to cut in line at the drinking fountain, lunch, etc.

Hearing this after nearly two decades can cause a nostalgia breakdown.
Hey, Jimmy! No cuts, No buts, No coconuts!
by blanket456 December 18, 2012
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Baby cut syndrome

When your self harm doesn't seem valid since it isn't deep enough. (Slang)
Sarah: I cut myself yet I don't think that's a problem. I mean they aren't that deep!
Therapist: Looks like you've got baby cut syndrome
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how's she cutting?

A:yeo bai how's she cutting?
B:aw like a new blade lawd
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Tilted Bowl Cut

it is a hairstyle that is, in essence, a tilted bowl cut. this hairstyle has been made famous in the San Diego skate scene. Usually a derogatory term. Can be abbreviated to TBC.
"Dude, Brett's hair is so retarded"
"Yeah, he is such a tilted bowl cut"
by BatmanJesus March 12, 2010
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cut like a diamond

1) when someone is at peak physical condition and is as pleasing to the eye to look at as the cut of a rare diamond
2) a fine physical specimen
3) certified dime piece
Aye brah, this girl is cut like a diamond!

Person 1: "Hey, did you see that guy? He's all muscles!"
Person 2: "Yeah, he was cut like a diamond!

Person 1: "You working out today?"
Person 2: "Yeah, I'm trying to get cut like a diamond."

Rihanna is to "shine bright like a diamond" as Terry Crews is to "cut like a diamond."
by boomstrat May 17, 2013
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