make the grade

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

En-au-make the grade.ogg

make the grade makes the grade making the grade made the grade

Probably from a railway train climbing a length of track sloping uphill (a grade).

cut it cut the mustard make the cut measure up pass muster fit the bill

up to par up to snuff

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