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Meaning of cut the mustard | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1
kʌt ðə ˈmʌstəd

Definitions

To achieve the expected standard; to be effective or good enough; to suffice.

idiomatic, intransitive

Equivalents

العربية يفي بالغرض
Bosanski duga duga
Deutsch es bringen
Suomi kelvata riittää
Français faire le poids
Hrvatski duga duga
Magyar tűrhető
Polski wystarczać wystarczyć
Русский потянуть
Српски duga duga
Svenska duga räcka till
Türkçe kesmek

Examples

“Give⟳ me the bigger hammer⟳. This little one just doesn’t cut⟳ the mustard.”
“By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed⟳. So I looked around and found a proposition that exactly cut⟳ the mustard. I found a restaurant tent just opened up by an outfit that had drifted in on the tail of the boom.”
“[I]f a man gets a loan and over a period of years he has demonstrated that he cannot cut⟳ the mustard, how is he going to demonstrate⟳ it in a period of 12 months?”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

cut the pigeon wing cut the shit cut the umbilical cord cut through cut ties cut to Hecuba

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