English Dictionary

make the grade

verb

(idiomatic) To prove satisfactory; to be successful or worthy of merit.

She studied hard to make the grade.

意味（1）

(idiomatic) To prove satisfactory; to be successful or worthy of merit.

In 1916 the famed Van Sweringen brothers bought their first railroad—the Nickel Plate. . . . This year, as usual, the tarnished Nickel Plate cannot make the grade. In first seven months it lost $2,003,779.