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Verb: make the grade
  1. [N. Amer] Go successfully through a test or a selection process
    - pass, make it
     
  2. [informal] Be at the required standard; be good enough; pass inspection
    "Colorado voting machines don't make the grade";
    - cut it [informal], pass muster [informal], cut the mustard [informal]

Derived forms: making the grade

Type of: bring home the bacon [informal], come through, come up trumps [Brit, informal], deliver the goods, succeed, turn up trumps [Brit, informal], win

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make noise
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make out
make over
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make peace
make pure
make relaxed
make sense
make sure
make the grade
make tracks
make up
make up one's mind
make vibrant sounds
make water
make way
make whoopee
make-believe
make-do
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