make the cut
1make the cut — (golf) To qualify for the final round(s) of a tournament • • • Main Entry: ↑cut * * * Golf equal or better a required score, thus avoiding elimination from the last two rounds of a four round tournament …
2make 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 …
3make 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] …
4make 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 …
5make 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… …
6make the team — qualify to join a team (especially a sports team); make the cut, get accepted to a group or club …
7make (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 …
8make 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 …
9make 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 …
10make 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 …
