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Doesn't cut it?

By the by, the expression is more often used in the negative than in the positive. That is, if something "cuts it" , say it works. Only say "doesn't cut it" when it doesn't, indeed, quite cut it.

Here are more examples:

1. Good figures alone don't cut it in depressed times No pain, no gain. As the credit crisis took its inevitable toll, the three once high-flying shares unceremoniously dumped from the No Pain, No Gain portfolio have, not surprisingly, failed to recapture any of their old sparkle. And the delivery of encouraging profits has again been contemptuously ignored by the stock market.

2. Same old contentdoesn't cut it for online readers Sadly, far too many newspapers continue to treat their websites as simply the online version of their printed papers. I thought that it was widely understood at this point that you will never grow your online audience if all your do is reprint only what is in your daily newspaper.

3. Will Clinton stand by her statement despite all evidence to the contrary? This tactic has failed her in the dodging-bullets-in-Bosnia incident and the press has gained courage in crying out the-Emporer-Has-No-Clothes, though it took Sinbad, a comedian, to call it out first, doing the work that journalists are paid to do. What held back the countless journalists who were on the same trip from reporting the discrepancy first with their own selves as witnesses? Was it the editorial boards at news organisations? Or perhaps it is true that "just words" doesn't quite cut it nowadays