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cut above

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cut above something

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

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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