Pretend not to see or recognize someone, as in "Any fellow was to be cut dead by the entire school" (Benjamin Disraeli, Vivien Grey, 1826). This idiom, in the
first half of the 1600s, began as
to cut one; in the early 1800s
dead was added for greater emphasis.
cut someone dead
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