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However, in a report setting out its recommendations for the next five years, the commission said that the current rate of heat pump installation in the UK was "not cutting the mustard".

From BBC

Under the apt headline "President Biden Is Not Cutting the Mustard," last week The American Prospect summed up: "Young people are abandoning him in droves because he won't fight for their rights and freedom."

From Salon

“Obviously, we like community and local control, but it wasn’t cutting the mustard here ultimately,” he said.

She fired one band when they weren’t cutting the mustard: her new, eight-strong rabble supply intimidating gang vocals on recent single I Said Salute Me, which finds Cousland ordering a crush who doesn’t return her ardour to drop and give her 20 in a Rocky Horror-worthy refrain.

Blends Fast Mornings are short enough without your having to waste time struggling with a blender that isn’t cutting the mustard.

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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