cut someone dead
Pretend not to see or recognize someone, as in “Any fellow was to be cut dead by the entire school” (Benjamin Disraeli, Vivien Grey, 1826). This idiom, in the first half of the 1600s, began as to cut one; in the early 1800s dead was added for greater emphasis.
Words nearby cut someone dead
cut out of whole cloth,
cut plug,
cut rate,
cut sheet feed,
cut short,
cut someone dead,
cut someone's throat,
cut square,
cut stone,
cut string,
cut teeth