cut things fine BrE
cut it fine BrE
cut it close AmE

"It will be cutting things fine, sir.

Punctuality always gives a good impression and if you cut things fine you will not be as calm and confident as you should be.

And he owes me for a couple stunts he pulled on me back when he was hooked on gambling and he had to cut things fine to keep from taking that long swim in the river.

"Still, you always wonder when they cut it fine.

The hero always cuts it fine, but he always get there just in the nick of time.

"You are cutting it fine, doctor barely ten minutes.

By the time Anthony drew up at the station entrance we were cutting it fine and had five minutes to catch the train.

Now he turned round to say, "We had better leave, Rachel, we're cutting it fine."

Even with normal traffic, it was cutting it fine.

That means you'll have to cut it fine."

I had cut it fine: I came to rest relative to the camera barely fifty meters away.

They might be cutting it fine to reach safe depths, but they'd kept their pact with humans once again in giving an alarm.

I knew I'd be cutting it fine, but I didn't seem to have much choice.

He'd cut it fine this time.

He had cut it finer than he liked.

Cutting it fine again but she grinned that she'd made it without harm to herself or her sled.

'Thought you were cutting it fine, but here you are and you've lots of time.

You sure do cut it fine."

He was cutting it fine now.

He had cut it fine.

We were cutting it fine.

They are cutting it fine though dontchathink?

"That's cutting it fine, Davi, but thanks for all you've done for me."

"That's cutting it fine indeed, Lieutenant."

They cut it fine- . . . could the engine help?

I'm cutting it fine on time here also, they take about 2 weeks to make them up to my specifications and I don't have that much time.

Fire on my signal--but cut it fine.

"Cutting it fine," said the purser gruffly.

"They're cutting it close, because they'll need some running time."

"Actually, we cut it closer than I would have liked."

These people were really cutting it close, in aiming for the Christmas season.

But he was cutting it close to the tree, still far up its slope.

I was cutting it close; the show aired live Friday night.

But he had a tendency to cut it close.

"We'll be cutting it close, but we have enough time.

"Hard to say exactly, but we'll be cutting it close.

If the storm progressed at this rate, he'd be cutting it close.

"You cut it close, Dallas, we got two minutes before air.

Six minutes was cutting it close, even for her.

Didn't even cut it close, because of the gas tank.

"It's going to be cutting it close, no matter what.

They were cutting it close for the trip home.

He cuts it close, but signs out on time.

Cut it close; the deep water's right next to shore."

Al-Sheik was cutting it close, but what choice did he have?

She'd cut it close and she'd have to work fast to get the photos before dark.

You're the ones who are cutting it close; you have farther to go."

"You people like to cut it close," the agent said, ripping off a part of each boarding card.

And I thought we were cutting it close.

That's all the time you'll have to carry out the operation, and that's cutting it close.

But this year, many are cutting it close.

Arriving at the airport an hour ahead for a domestic flight is cutting it close on a busy day.