All make the grade synonyms

verb make the grade

• check out — When you check out of a hotel or clinic where you have been staying, or if someone checks you out, you pay the bill and leave.
• pass muster — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
• measure up — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
• do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• come up to — To be coming up to a time or state means to be getting near to it.
• tide over — the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
• win over — to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
• chalk up — If you chalk up a success, a victory, or a number of points in a game, you achieve it.
• hit pay dirt — to discover a source of wealth, success, etc.
• luck out — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
• make a killing — If you make a killing, you make a large profit very quickly and easily.
• make an impression — have impact
• put over — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• take the cake — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
• make a hit — If you make a hit with someone, they like you or are impressed by you when they meet you.
• fit in — belong
• go together — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• do credit to — present or represent honourably
• stand up — standing erect or upright, as a collar.