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grade someone down (on something)
to give someone a low ranking, rating, or score on some performance. I had to grade you down on your essay because of your spelling. Please don't grade me down for a minor mistake.

make the grade

to be satisfactory; to be what is expected. I'm sorry, but your work doesn't exactly make the grade. This meal doesn't just make the grade. It is excellent.
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make the grade
to succeed at something, usually because your skills are good enough (often negative) He wanted to get into medical school but he failed to make the grade.
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make the grade
to be good enough An excuse like “I didn't call because I couldn't find your number” doesn't make the grade for most women.
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Commercial auctions of slaves raised a problem that did not exist in the auction or sale of products such as cotton, tobacco, rice, and sugar, which are simple commodities that are either homogeneous or readily gradable.
Also, in the case of gradable properties one can speak about the presence or absence of the internal quantitative boundary, and, accordingly, the properties can be divided into bounded gradable properties and unbounded gradable properties (cf.
 
 
 
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