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cut to the quick задеть за живое M E A N I N G : to hurt someone’s feeling very deeply; to be extremely unkind or nasty I was cut to the quick by her harsh remarks. ORIGIN: Many centuries ago there was an Old English word cwicu (today it’s quick) which referred to the most sensitive flesh on the body, right under the nails on your fingers and toes. The phrase has been in use since the seventeenth century when people started using it to mean more than just cutting someone with a knife or sword. It meant offending a person so deeply with a cutting remark that he felt sharp inner pain as if he had been emotionally stabbed. cutting edge передний край, передовой рубеж (развития науки и техники) M E A N I N G : the forefront of new developments; the most advanced or important position, usually in science and technology My brother works in nuclear physics. He’s on the cutting edge of some pretty amazing discoveries. ORIGIN: The allusion is to the sharp blade of a knife or tool. Just as the cutting edge of a sharp knife makes contact before the rest of the knife when slicing through objects, a highly advanced discovery is said to be on the cutting edge. The term has been used in science and technology since the 1950s to describe innovative research and has spread into everyday life to the extent that it is the title of a British television program. 34