cut one's loss

cut one's loss
(cut one's loss(es))
бросить невыгодное дело; ≈ выйти из игры

Good gamblers cut their losses. (J. Galsworthy, ‘Saint's Progress’, part III, ch. XII) — Опытные игроки, когда не везет, бросают игру.

I hope she isn't going to be much of a handful. If she is, the best thing you can do is cut your losses and get out of it straight away. (C. P. Snow, ‘Time of Hope’, ch. XVIII) — Надеюсь, Шейла не доставит тебе много хлопот. А если увидишь, что ничего путного не получается, выходи из игры и ставь точку!

You know that Roger has had his own line on this? (She meant Suez.) You know it, I know you know it, and it's dead opposite to the way I felt. Well, that's all down the drain now. It doesn't matter a hoot what any of us thought. We've just got to cut our losses and start again. (C. P. Snow, ‘Corridors of Power’, ch. XVI) — Вы знаете, что у Роджера был свой взгляд на всю эту историю (Кэро хотела сказать - на Суэц). Знаете ведь. Я же знаю, что вы знаете. И наши с ним взгляды прямо противоположны. Ну да ладно, все теперь полетело к чертям. Какое имеет значение, кто что думал. Нужно поскорее все это забыть и начинать сначала.

I told him that you and I felt pretty bad about the, whole thing, and since we planned to stay in business here we wanted to help him cut his losses. (M. Wilson, ‘My Brother, My Enemy’, ch. 8) — Тогда я сказал, что все это нам с тобой здорово неприятно, а поскольку мы рассчитываем и впредь вести дела в нашем городе, то хотим помочь ему возместить убытки.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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