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cut the mustard
To do well enough in what needs to be done; to succeed.
His older brothers and sisters helped Max through high school, but he couldn't cut the mustard in college.
cut to the chase
Перейти к делу
Let’s stop all this chatter and cut to the chase.
Давайте перестанем болтать и перейдем к делу.
cut-and-dried
cut and dried
open and shut
Decided or expected beforehand; following the same old line; doing the usual thing; boring.
A job on a factory assembly line is certainly cut and dried.
People at the convention heard many cut-and-dried speeches.
The decision of the judge was cut-and-dried.
The results of the national election were rather cut and dried; the Republicans won easily.
The ways of the king's court were cut-and-dried.
cut-rate
Sold for a price lower than usual; selling cheap things.
If you buy cut-rate things, be sure they are good quality first.
John's brother bought a cut-rate bicycle at the second-hand store.
There is a cut-rate drug-store on the corner.
cut-throat
Severe; intense; unrelenting.
There is cut-throat competition among the various software companies today.
cutback
An act of decreasing monetary sources.
The cutback in military spending has caused many bases to be closed.
daily dozen
Gymnastic exercises; especially, several different exercises done daily.
The boys did their daily dozen early each morning.
damned if one does, damned if one doesn't
No matter what one does, someone is likely to criticize one.
No matter what decisions I make, there are always some people who will approve them and those who won't. It is a classical case of "damned if I do, damned if I don't."