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