cut through the bureaucracy

Syllable breakdown

Dictionary meaning

to navigate around, bypass, or efficiently resolve the obstacles, delays, and procedural requirements created by complex administrative systems in order to accomplish a practical goal more quickly and directly than the official process would normally allow; the phrase acknowledges that large bureaucratic organisations necessarily create procedural requirements that can impede action, and it implies that a person who can cut through these obstacles possesses either the knowledge of which procedures can legitimately be bypassed, the authority to waive requirements, or the social capital and persuasive skill to expedite processes that would otherwise move at the pace of normal institutional processing