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Meaning of CUTTING-EDGE and ON THE CUTTING EDGE - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So there's a couple ways to use the phrase,
"cutting edge", in English.
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The first is to describe something that is
the newest and best version that you can buy.
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So you may have a cutting-edge smartphone.
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That would mean you have the latest, the greatest,
the best smartphone that you can buy.
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The company that makes cutting-edge things,
the company that makes things that are the
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best that they can be, and the newest, are
sometimes described as being, "on the cutting
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edge".
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So you could say that Apple is on the cutting
edge when it comes to making smartphones.
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So, you can use it to describe a thing, you
can say that you have a cutting-edge smartphone,
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which means it's the best and newest.
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Or you could say that a company is on the
cutting edge, which means that they always
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invent and have the newest stuff.
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