a cut above

phrase

: better than other people or things

All of his books are good, but this one is a cut above (the rest).

She's a cut above the other competitors and should win easily.

Examples of a cut above in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The materials inside, from the stitched door panels and soft-touch dashboard to the seats with the suede trim are a cut above anything found in a Honda Pilot. — Joel Feder, The Drive, 6 Nov. 2026

Mitchell took a shot to the face on a drive to the basket that led to a cut above his right eye just 16 seconds into the third quarter of Wednesday’s 144-128 exhibition win against the Brooklyn Nets at Kaseya Center. — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026

Some of this material is just a cut above cliché, a way of providing readers with a smattering of cultural reference. — David Denby, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

By the end of the round, Hrgović was nursing a cut above his right eyebrow — a worrying sign for a man whose June 2024 fight against Daniel Dubois was stopped because of cuts above both his eyebrows. — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for a cut above

• hereinabove
• dove
• glove
• love
• of
• shove
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof