cut your losses

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cut your losses — idiom

1. to stop doing something that is failing or losing money, so that the situation d

1.idiom
Definition

to stop doing something that is failing or losing money, so that the situation does not get even worse.

Example

After three months of falling sales, the owner decided to cut his losses and close the shop.

Tanvi knew the project would never work, so she cut her losses and moved on to a new idea.