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If you are determined to cut the mustard as a successful businessman in these cut throat times you have to surround yourself with the best in the business. To be considered as someone cut of the same cloth as the bestsellers of the business world is a clear cut way to advance in the ladder of success.

Never underestimate the power of good relationships, cut through the walls of red tape with a well established circle of allies who will cut you some slack in your shortcomings and insufficiencies. Be alert to perceive failure when it hits you in the eye for there will always be people and situations that will cut you down to your size. In your journey to success you will encounter events that you are not cut out for to do. Should you find yourself in such a predicatment, be bold to cut your losses and start again.

Life is not a cut and dried matter but a myriad of pathways, junctures and crossroads that bears the wandering train of our existence. Cut the crap out of your life and cut to the chase with your goal, soon one day like the surprising emergence of a blooming horizon, you will find yourself a cut above the rest!

Meaning:

cut a mustard: to meet the expectations of people

cut throat: fiercely competitive

cut of the same cloth: to be seen as alike or the same with them

clear cut: clear and certain, without doubt

cut through: to avoid or bypass something complicated

cut you some slack: to allow someone to do something that is not usually allowed or to treat someone less severely than is usual

cut down to size: to put someone down or to make him less important

cut out for : not suited for something

cut your losses: to stop before more is lost

cut and dried: simple

cut the crap: take out the unnecessary things

cut to the chase: go straight to the point

cut above the rest: better quality than most others, superior value than other people