Definition of "cut it" [cut it]

• To suffice; to be effective or successful. (verb)

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• "“I was a little bit frightened,” said Aunt Molly, “but I went ahead and cut it and sewed it all myself.”"
• "It was he who defended her when Jay and Bobby made cracks about girls not being able to cut it on the Austin music scene—throwing out names like Janis Joplin, the sixties blues icon who had made a name for herself in the Texas capital, singing at clubs like Threadgills."
• "Someone had apparently cut it out of the paper and written a single word in red across the image: Unpretty."