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English
- CMI (Singapore, initialism)
Verb
cannot make it
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cannot, make it.
- (Singapore, colloquial, stative, idiomatic) Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently; describes someone in a hopeless situation.
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’.”