cut away• After three years, some trees around it were cut and hauled away.• He found that even if he could get a word in edgewise it was encircled and cut off right away.• Some had their hair cut for running away.• Her face was dirty and her gownstained, and like Jehana she had cut the skirt away at thigh level.• This cuts directly away from the usualphilosophical wrangling about this all-important subject.