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not cut the mustard

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not cut the mustard
not satisfactory or right for the situation Cutting taxes for the rich doesn't cut the mustard with most middle-class people.
Usage notes: sometimes used in the form cut the mustard: When you're a kid, you always think you have to prove that you can cut the mustard.
Related vocabulary: not cut it
See also: cut, mustard


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HE saw Michael Chopra arrive at Newcastle's Academy as an eight-year-old and, as youth team director, had to fight to keep Andy Carroll at St James's Park after the youngster was told he could not cut the mustard as a striker.
Elections are won these days on personalities and Gordon's just does not cut the mustard in popularity stakes.
They had been treated to some superb cars in the past such as the great RM, but the Pathfinder of the 1950s, brother to the Wolseley 6/90, just did not cut the mustard with the traditionalists.
 
 
 
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