make the cut
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make the cut — If you make the cut, you reach a required standard or succeed in passing from one round of a competition to another. After intensive training, Sarah made the cut and joined the team … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
make the cut — idi inf a) to attain a particular goal; make the grade b) to survive an elimination process, as of a sports team: Only two of the proposals made the cut[/ex] … From formal English to slang
make the cut — verb To succeed; to be chosen out of a field of candidates or possibilities. Out of a pool of twenty applicants, only 3 made the cut … Wiktionary
make the grade — verb To prove satisfactory; to be successful or worthy of merit. In 1916 the famed Van Sweringen brothers bought their first railroad the Nickel Plate. . . . This year, as usual, the tarnished Nickel Plate cannot make the grade. In first seven… … Wiktionary
make the team — qualify to join a team (especially a sports team); make the cut, get accepted to a group or club … English contemporary dictionary
make (or miss) the cut Golf — reach (or fail to reach) a required score, thus avoiding (or ensuring) elimination from the last two rounds of a four round tournament. → cut … English new terms dictionary
make the grade — (informal) COME UP TO STANDARD, come up to scratch, qualify, pass, pass muster, measure up; succeed, win through; informal be up to snuff, cut it, cut the mustard. → grade * * * I. phrasal : succeed … Useful english dictionary
make the grade — informal he lacked the experience to make the grade Syn: qualify, be up to scratch, come up to standard, pass, pass muster, measure up; succeed, win through; informal be up to snuff, cut it, cut the mustard … Thesaurus of popular words
make the grade — Synonyms and related words: answer, avail, be able, be equal to, be up to, bear, can, can do, clear, clear the hurdle, come along, come on, contrive, cut it, cut the mustard, do, do it, engineer, fill the bill, fulfill, get along, get by, get on … Moby Thesaurus
make the scene — Synonyms and related words: achieve success, advance, arrive, be a success, be enfranchised, be implicated in, bear a hand, break through, chip in, come on, come through, contribute, cut a swath, enter into, get ahead, get on, get there, go far,… … Moby Thesaurus
