cut above

Idioms and Phrases

Someone or something that is superior to examples of a similar nature, as in This book is a cut above his previous one . This idiom uses cut in the sense of “a higher degree or stage.” [Early 1800s]

Example Sentences

As a “source close to Clooney” reportedly told People magazine this year, Alamuddin is “on his level”—if not a cut above.

From The Daily Beast

Q: So the key would be keeping the quality a cut above the competition then.

From The Daily Beast

The nurse brought her sal volatile, and washed the small cut above her eyebrow.

From Project Gutenberg

I had escaped with hardly a scratch; but I saw an ugly cut above his knee, and blood stealing down his bridle-arm.

From Project Gutenberg

In this partition there is a wide opening cut above a broad oak table.

From Project Gutenberg

The chips are cut above and below, and then split off by the animal; the felled trees lay about us in every direction.

From Project Gutenberg

The lever is shown in Fig. 2, the cut above giving a side view and that below it a bottom view of this part of the trap.

From Project Gutenberg