cut above



cut above something

a measure or degree better than something else. Your shirt is beautiful, but mine is a cut above yours.
See also: above, cut

cut above

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]
See also: above, cut

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
ValtteriVAHLT-te-reeFinnish
Mcconnell[mə'lɔnl]
Fayvel-Yiddish
HeinoHIE-no (German), HAY-no (Finnish)German, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Estonian
Whitman['hwitmən]
Morgane-French