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cutting it

cutting it is the present participle and gerund of cut it.

Meaning of cut it

Verb

cut it (third-person singular simple present cuts it, present participle cutting it, simple past and past participle cut it)

  1. (idiomatic) To suffice; to be effective or successful.
    • Sometimes, professional tools are necessary and homespun solutions just don't cut it.

Questions about cutting it

What is cutting it the present participle and gerund of?
Cutting it is the present participle and gerund of cut it.

Words near cutting it in the dictionary

  1. cutting horse
  2. cutting horses
  3. cutting in
  4. cutting in line
  5. cutting into
  6. cutting it
  7. cutting it close
  8. cutting it fat
  9. cutting it fine
  10. cutting it loose
  11. cutting it up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cutting it (page history and authors); cut it (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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