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jrineakter
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So this expression dates back

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n a slightly more colloquial way, as in the expression, the word "whistle" can refer to someone's throat or voice. So the whistle is someone's throat or their voice.

to the 16th century. And at the time, be careful, if you are sensitive, the meaning was brutal. If we cut someone's whistle, well we cut their throat, we slit their throat, we slit their throat to simply kill them. So the word "whistle" referred to the throat, which is ultimately the instrument of the human body or in any case inside the throat, there are our vocal cords that produce sounds and allow us to speak. So cutting the whistle, at the time, in the 16th century, meant cutting the throat, slitting the throat, in fact killing someone.

Fortunately, over time, we do this less and less, and the meaning of the expression has changed a little, it is much less bloody today and a little more common. When we say that we cut iraq whatsapp number data someone's whistle, well it is not their throat that we cut, it is the way of expressing oneself, we prevent someone from expressing themselves, either because we interrupt them, or to silence them.

We can interrupt him for example because we are shocked by what he says, or we want him to stop talking and we cut him off. So, we come back to what I was saying earlier, when I was talking to you about cutting him off, but here, cutting him off means cutting him off but because we really want the person to be quiet. It's not that we necessarily want to say something and we take the floor to say something, it's rather, we want him to stop talking because we don't want to hear what he says.

We talked about the expression "to shut up" a little while ago, well, to cut the whistle means the same thing, it's a synonym. To shut up, to cut the whistle, means to silence someone, to interrupt them, because you don't want to hear them.

Let's look at some examples, three examples to be exact. Imagine that there are two people talking and they start to have a debate because these two people don't agree and there is a third person who witnesses the scene and says: "Wow! The boss didn't expect him to have so many comebacks. It took his breath away."
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