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Originally Posted by mykwyner "Doesn't cut [any] ice" is a polite way of saying the very vulgar American idiom "doesn't cut [any] sh*t."
It means to have no force or importance at all.
The fact that More was a martyr did not mean anything to Grant.
"You may be a big shot at your school, but that doesn't cut sh*t around here." |
Well, 'that doesn't cut any ice with me' is the original idiom though - referring to someone so useless or unimportant (to the person saying it) that they were unable to perform the basic task of cutting through ice on a lake to catch fish in cold weather.