to cut a swath through

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• cut a swath through something — cut a swath/swathe through (something) to cause a lot of destruction, death, or harm in a particular place or among a particular group of people. Violent electrical storms cut a swath through parts of the South yesterday. The AIDS epidemic has… …   New idioms dictionary

• cut a swath through — cut a swath/swathe through (something) to cause a lot of destruction, death, or harm in a particular place or among a particular group of people. Violent electrical storms cut a swath through parts of the South yesterday. The AIDS epidemic has… …   New idioms dictionary

• cut a swath through — pass through (something) causing great damage, destruction, or change a tornado cut a two mile long swath through residential neighborhoods …   Useful english dictionary

• cut a swathe through something — cut a swath/swathe through (something) to cause a lot of destruction, death, or harm in a particular place or among a particular group of people. Violent electrical storms cut a swath through parts of the South yesterday. The AIDS epidemic has… …   New idioms dictionary

• cut a swathe through — cut a swath/swathe through (something) to cause a lot of destruction, death, or harm in a particular place or among a particular group of people. Violent electrical storms cut a swath through parts of the South yesterday. The AIDS epidemic has… …   New idioms dictionary

• cut a swath — cut a (wide) swath 1. to cause a lot of destruction, death, or harm in a particular place. Violent thunderstorms cut a swath of destruction through the area, blowing down trees and damaging houses. 2. to attract a lot of interest or attention.… …   New idioms dictionary

• cut a wide swath — cut a (wide) swath 1. to cause a lot of destruction, death, or harm in a particular place. Violent thunderstorms cut a swath of destruction through the area, blowing down trees and damaging houses. 2. to attract a lot of interest or attention.… …   New idioms dictionary

• swath — [ swaθ ] noun count FORMAL 1. ) a large area of land, usually longer than it is wide 2. ) a large number of people or things or a large area of something: The disease killed huge swaths of the population. cut a (wide) swath through something to… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• cut a wide swath — verb a) To clear a broad track through a grassland, woodland, geographical region, or other area, either by natural means or by human action …   Wiktionary

• cut — v 1. gash, slash, lance, slit, slice; notch, ridge, Cookery. score; sever, abscind, split, carve, cleave, sunder; rend, rive, tear, rip; divide, section, apportion; dissect, cut apart, anatomize, disjoint, quarter; disjoin, disunite, dismember. 2 …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• come through — Synonyms and related words: achieve success, advance, arrive, be a success, be glimpsed, be safe, be so, be such, beat the game, beat the system, break through, bring about, bring off, bring to effect, bring to pass, carry into effect, carry into …   Moby Thesaurus