cannot make it

cannot make it

English

Alternative forms

  • CMI (Singapore, initialism)

Verb

cannot make it

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cannot,‎ make it.
  2. (Singapore, colloquial, stative, idiomatic) Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently; describes someone in a hopeless situation.
    • 2006 July 20, Zul Othman, Today, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Mediacorp Press, page 37:
      A noble effort but somehow the only words that came to mind were “cannot make it, lah”.
    • 2023, Dan Goodley, Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Meng Ee Wong, Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore, →ISBN:
      […] “it never ended preliminarily at ‘he cannot make it’, […] it was always ‘let's do this or that to help him’.”
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