Usually means: Deeply hurt someone's feelings quickly.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. cut (someone) to the quick, cut to the quick: Merriam-Webster
  2. cut (sb) to the quick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. cut to the quick: Wiktionary
  4. cut to the quick: Dictionary.com
  5. cut to the quick: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut to the quick: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut to the quick: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut to the quick: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut to the quick: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut to the quick: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cut to the quick)

verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To hurt a person deeply, especially emotionally.
verb:  (figuratively) To incisively discuss the underlying sensitive or unpleasant root of a given topic.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, quick.

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