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Phrase(s): cut something out of something [and] cut something out
to cut a pattern or shape from cloth, paper, sheet metal, etc.; to remove something from something by cutting; to excise something from something. (When both out and of are used, no direct object can intervene.) • Sam cut a pig out from the paper. • I cut the picture out of a magazine. • I cut out the shape of the moon from the paper.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs