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Idioms and Phrases
Someone or something that is superior to examples of a similar nature, as in This book is a cut above his previous one . This idiom uses cut in the sense of “a higher degree or stage.” [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
For Chiles, her junior-year return to Westwood ended a cut above her first year in blue and gold when the Bruins fell in the national semifinals.
In England's most recent 3-0 defeat in India, Rashid was a cut above - taking seven wickets at 27, including that of Virat Kohli twice.
Chisora was cut above his right eye in round five but passed a check with the doctor in the sixth as he continued to enjoy the better of the close exchanges.
Mr Arlie is also understood to have spoken to a woman on a bus travelling from North Greenwich underground station, who gave him a tissue for a cut above his eye.
Seven-weight world champion Serrano - suffering from the horrific cut above her eye - once again felt hard done by.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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