Usually means: Meet required standards or criteria.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. make the cut: Merriam-Webster
  2. make the cut: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. make the cut: Collins English Dictionary
  4. make the cut: Wiktionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. make the cut: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. make the cut: Golfer's Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (make the cut)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic, informal) To succeed at something or meet a requirement; to be chosen out of a field of candidates or possibilities.

Similar:
make the grade, cut it, cut the mustard, come through, get the nod, qualify, hit the mark, pass, get in, choose up, more...

Opposite:
fail, be eliminated, get cut, be rejected

Adjectives:
put up, deal, pan, go, attack, lay, laydown, traverse, to go, deliver, budge

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Similar:
make the grade, cut it, cut the mustard, come through, get the nod, qualify, hit the mark, pass, get in, choose up, more...

Opposite:
fail, be eliminated, get cut, be rejected

Adjectives:
put up, deal, pan, go, attack, lay, laydown, traverse, to go, deliver, budge



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