I think I'll just go on and trim this out.
He has trimmed out a couple of characters who added nothing but more confusion to the already chaotic second act.
It will be trimmed out in the Federal style.
She's also the person responsible for trimming out mistakes.
Jimmy's going to go in there and trim out all the fat - the guys just sitting around collecting checks.
Was in my article as an open question but got trimmed out as I tried to meet the word count!
If the motor is trimmed out too far, the bow will ride too high in the water.
In the second case, unwanted edges would need to be trimmed out with another exposure.
"There were so many things in the book that the actors would have loved to have a crack at but had to get trimmed out."
Still, at that point it clearly needed about 1/2 hour (mostly pointless dance sequences) trimmed out.