Why Do We Say 'Cut to the Chase'?
midway through a meeting that so far has been full of nothing but useless check - chat and wispy ideas , you ’re wishing people would get to the point — or , in other Christian Bible , that they’dcut to the chase . Much likegetting on a soapboxorpushing the gasbag , cut to the chaseusedto be a real action mechanism . Whensilent filmsbecame popular in the early 20th hundred , filmmakers could n’t trust on dialogue — jokes , argument , aroused declarations , criminal confession , etc....