CUT SOMETHING OUT OF SOMETHING

cut something out of something: translation

cut something out of something & 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.

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I cut the picture out of a magazine.

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I cut out the shape of the moon from the paper.