American English, 1930s.

cut the crap (third-person singular simple present cuts the crap, present participle cutting the crap, simple past and past participle cut the crap)

1. (often vulgar) To stop prevaricating or lying.

   Synonyms: cut the crud, cut the bullshit, cut to the chase, cut the shit

   • 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 14, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 133:

     “I told you about ten times, I don't owe you a cent. I already gave her the five–” “Cut the crap, now. Let's have it.”

• beat around the bush