Religious scholar gets talk cut short (5)
I believe the answer is:
rabbi
'religious scholar' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'talk cut short' is the wordplay.
'talk' becomes 'rab' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'cut' means to remove the last letter.
'short' becomes 'bit'.
'bit' with its last letter taken away is 'bi'.
'rab'+'bi'='RABBI'
'gets' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rabbi that I've seen before include "Religious person" , "Leader of worshippers" , "Blue" , "Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation" , "Jewish religious teacher" .)