cut corners

“I was cutting corners,” he acknowledged, marking packages as delivered so he could leave work a few minutes early.

The NAO, which monitors how public money is spent, cited an "under-skilled workforce", businesses cutting corners and uncertainty over which standards to apply to which jobs, as some of the reasons for the substandard work.

If you are anxious about your injury or fear that you won’t bounce back, you might not trust the process and end up cutting corners on the recovery plan.

Many environmentalists and community members had worried the speed of the cleanup might lead to workers cutting corners or substandard workmanship.

In the complaint, workers said that management had caused the problems by cutting corners on ordering cleaning supplies such as dish soap and grill cleaner.