释义 |
cut the mustard informal Come up to expectations; reach the required standard: I didn’t cut the mustard as a hockey player...- It seems pastel-coloured headlines about the perfect cheesecake no longer cut the mustard, and that ‘homemakers’ are better catered to by other publications.
- Although she believes its cutting the mustard with fewer and fewer in a media that increasingly feels it's been fed one too many ‘historic’ lines by the party.
- Please allow us some period of adjustment and development, and then, if we are not cutting the mustard, fine, you can dole out pelters.
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