"A cut above average" nghĩa là gì?

"A cut above average" nghĩa là trên trung bình. Còn "be a cut above" nghĩa là giỏi hơn người khác.

Ví dụ

Uncle Ed, Albert's mother's brother, was a cut above average as far as Albert was concerned. But he wasn't a cut above the average farmer, qua (với tư cách là) farmer, in the eyes of his neighbours. 

Apparently Franklin wasn't operating today, but his clothes still told everyone he was a cut above average. His unbuttoned (không cài cúc) lab coat revealed a whiteonwhite dress shirt set off by a designer tie.

That's how my mother sometimes describes my early and pubescent (tuổi dậy thì) years, before the accident, when I was a cut above average at the Jesuit school for boys. She likes to word things in a particular way. 

Manufacturers (nhà sản xuất) also use advertising and marketing to groom car shoppers to think of them as brands that offer more than the mainstream (chính thống) brands — a cut above the average, and that is often truer.

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