"cannot make it" meaning in English

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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cannot, make it."
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          "ref": "2006 July 20, Zul Othman, Today, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Mediacorp Press, page 37:",
          "text": "A noble effort but somehow the only words that came to mind were “cannot make it, lah”.",
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        {
          "ref": "2023, Dan Goodley, Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Meng Ee Wong, Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[…] “it never ended preliminarily at ‘he cannot make it’, […] it was always ‘let's do this or that to help him’.”",
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        "Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently; describes someone in a hopeless situation."
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          "hopeless",
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        "(Singapore, colloquial, stative, idiomatic) Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently; describes someone in a hopeless situation."
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