Think heavy: an M-16 will not cut the mustard with these things.

At least they know who can cut the mustard.

Some people, try as they may, can't cut the mustard!

To show they could cut the mustard, I guess.

He wanted to show the white folks that Negroes could cut the mustard in every way.

"You know, I really don't think he can cut the mustard."

You aren't going to cut the mustard in these western lands.

I don't think some of you are gonna cut the mustard.

Late game heroics aren't going to cut the mustard when you're down by 24.

Seemed a shame to waste money on a custom job when who knew if the kid could cut the mustard.

"I couldn't cut the mustard, and they turned me loose," he said.

Many of the big-name fund managers have failed to cut the mustard in recent months.

Ultimately, the question of whether these oddities cut the mustard becomes irrelevant.

It was whispered, Patsy said, that he couldn't cut the mustard.

I'd figure he was going through a change of life and had to prove he could still cut the mustard with a young chick.

Then if I don't cut the mustard, so be it."

However, just obeying orders doesn't quite cut the mustard, does it?

A man with ready cash can often make some good buys of folks who just can't cut the mustard.

After several lean years, it became increasingly clear that this Carnegie couldn't cut the mustard.

"As a political party," he said, "they haven't cut the mustard."

"He was fully aware that that did not cut the mustard," she said.

And if they can't cut the mustard that way, they'll get their walking papers."

H: You just have to cut the mustard.

When propriety didn't cut the mustard, Thompson hit him with the facts of business life.

Think heavy: an M-16 will not cut the mustard with these things.

"He was fully aware that that did not cut the mustard," she said.

"He did not cut the mustard," Mr. Sunday said in an interview here tonight.

We're still not cutting the mustard down there."

Why not cut the Mustard?

Squeak does not cut the mustard.

However, you are right when it comes to the performance of too many Shadow Front Bench members who frankly are not cutting the mustard.

Sir, you collected but two hits in five games and, despite Gold Glove-caliber defense at the hot corner, your three RBI just could not cut the mustard.

"It is clear that the prosecutors are deciding that a lot of the investigations being recommended do not cut the mustard and do not meet their standards," Mr. Burnham said.

'Did Not Cut the Mustard' She said she called Mr. Koob in October and he said that the only documentation he had was from the Maya skipper.

"Even though they're fooling no one, it's easier to say 'These people weren't cutting the mustard' than to say 'We're not cutting the mustard,' " an associate dismissed by Shea & Gould said.

The proposal is "a recognition of the increasing scientific evidence that volatile organic chemical controls alone will not cut the mustard," said Barbara A. Kwetz, director of air quality control at the Massachusetts Division of Environmental Protection.

But another possibility is that his commercial instinct told him that the romance of outlawry might not cut the mustard with contemporary audiences the way it used to - that is, that we're no longer prepared to identify with an outlaw without a nudge.