to 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 …
10Layin' in the Cut — Infobox Album Name = Layin in the Cut Type = album Artist = A Lighter Shade of Brown Released = July 26, 1994 Recorded = 1993 1994 Genre = Hip Hop Length = Label = Mercury Records Producer = Jammin James Carter, DTTX, Robert Gutierrez, Romeo,… …
