Meaning of cannot make it | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cannot, make it.
2. Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently; describes someone in a hopeless situation.
   Singapore, colloquial, idiomatic, stative

Examples

“A noble effort but somehow the only words that came to mind were “cannot make it, lah”.”

“[…] “it never ended preliminarily at ‘he cannot make it’, […] it was always ‘let's do this or that to help him’.””

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