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cannot make it

verb

Definitions

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cannot, make it.

  2. Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently

    Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently; describes someone in a hopeless situation.

    • A noble effort but somehow the only words that came to mind were “cannot make it, lah”.
    • […] “it never ended preliminarily at ‘he cannot make it’, […] it was always ‘let's do this or that to help him’.”

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cannot make it. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA