Work & careers
trim the fat
remove unnecessary parts
To trim the fat means to remove unnecessary costs, activities, or parts from something.
Hear it in real life
Why are you reviewing the timetable?
We need to trim the fat and remove a few unnecessary meetings.
The company is trimming the fat from its advertising budget.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: trim the fats from the budget
Say: trim the fat from the budget
In this idiom, “fat” is uncountable, so do not make it plural.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
trim the fat from something; trim some fat
Your turn: say it out loud
The company is trimming the fat from its advertising budget.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
trim the fat
remove unnecessary parts
“The company is trimming the fat from its advertising budget.”
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