cut the mustard

Speech parts

1. cut the mustard - Verb

2. cut the mustard - Phrase

Meaning

cut the mustard (third-person singular simple present cuts the mustard, present participle cutting the mustard, simple past and past participle cut the mustard)

(idiomatic) To suffice; to be good or effective enough.
Give me the bigger hammer. This little one just doesn't cut the mustard.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

cut it pass muster up to par hack it make the grade make the cut up to snuff

Antonyms

fall flat fall through

Examples

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard. Sherrod Brown

For Andromeda, a web version won't cut the mustard, and its absence is something that will keep me off the platform. Source: Internet

It let a lot of spam into the Inbox, it didn't do well detecting phishing websites, and its parental control, while improved, still doesn't cut the mustard. Source: Internet

Originally, we were only meant to stay for a long weekend, but as time wore on I realised that that wasn’t going to cut the mustard, and so we ended up extending things with some cheap return flights thanks to the BA air miles I have accumulated. Source: Internet

Pretty much, if you can’t cut the mustard within a handful of years, you’re advised to drop out of the game. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

cut the mustard

Close letter words and terms

cut the grass cut the knot cut the lawn cut the muster cut the nonsense cut the pigeon wing