cut it

Idioms  

1. Also, cut that . Stop, as in I won't stand for that—cut it! or If you don't cut that, I'll tell . [ Slang ; first half of 1800s] Also see cut it out .

2. Manage, tolerate, as in I don't know how he can cut it . [ Slang ; c. 1900]

3. Be effective, prove satisfactory, as in She's getting old and can no longer cut it . [Late 1900s] For a synonym see cut the mustard . Also see the subsequent entries beginning with cut it .

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Example Sentences

Athwal said the system was "in urgent need of reform" and "tinkering around the edges is not going to cut it".

From BBC

“But ‘suck it up’ doesn’t cut it here.”

From The Wall Street Journal

So they cut it off and basically said that no court can look at the lawfulness of immigration deportation orders, even through habeas, that there is one way, and the only way is through what’s called a circuit court review, having the federal appellate courts eventually review it.

From Slate

As dark as the novel becomes, “the real darkness of the gulag there was so bleak that I had to cut it out,” the author has said.

From The Wall Street Journal

But there were members of the team who were like, ‘No, you can’t cut it — this sequence means so much.’

From Los Angeles Times

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• withstand