What does the boldened part of this sentence mean?:
- As it turned out this man (a senior Foreign Affairs Advisor) was a considerable cut above the bush leaguers we had been dealing with.
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3Does this answer your question? What is the origin of "a cut above/below the rest"? (A vast etymological treatise, but one answer clearly gives the definition of 'a cut above'.)– Edwin AshworthMar 27, 2021 at 10:52
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You can also look up "bush league".– GEdgarMar 27, 2021 at 11:51
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It is an idiomatic expression:
be a cut above
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.
(M-W)
- So the text means that he was considerably better than other bush leaguers.
answered Mar 27, 2021 at 10:44
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He's not a bush leaguer; he's better than a bush leaguer. A bush-leaguer is a second-rate performer. See dictionary. Mar 27, 2021 at 12:37