Phrase info Synonyms

cut back on

Synonyms

Examples

Our Congress passes laws that subsidize corporations, farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia, but when they turn their attention to the poor they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on funds for Head Start. Coretta Scott King

Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't. Barbara Walters

[Obama] wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more fireman, more policeman, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It's time for us to cut back on government and help the American people. Mitt Romney

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day. Robin Wright

I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage. Zadie Smith

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war. Michele Bachmann

Words in the phrase

Close letter words and terms