To cut a figure.
1855. I ’m not what you might call smart, myself; but I thought ’t Mad might better have cut just as big a swath somewhere else in general, and on the island in particular.—Knick. Mag., xlvi. 617 (Dec.).
1888. He carried things with a high hand, and cut a big swath.—Boston Weekly Globe, March 28 (Farmer).
