cut out for

cut out for someone or something

to run hurriedly toward someone or something. At the last minute, he cut out for the gate, which was closing very fast. The child cut out for his mother, who had come to get him at school.

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cut out for something

suited for something. She was bright and she loved to read. Her folks thought she was cut out for being a schoolteacher. He did his best, but he just wasn't cut out for farming.

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cut out for something

to be the right type of person to do something Ron tried college a couple times, but he finally decided he wasn't cut out for higher education.

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