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- verb idiomatic To
succeed at something or meet arequirement ; to bechosen out of afield ofcandidates orpossibilities .
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From the sport of golf, in which players are said to make the cut when they match or exceed a certain score, thus avoiding elimination during the final two rounds of a four-round tournament.
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