make the cut 

To meet or come up to a required standard (from golf where a player must do equal or better than a certain score to continue)

e.g. 1 (original meaning)
The young player did not make the cut and was unable to join the team that year.

e.g. 2
Some say if Pluto were discovered today instead of 75 years ago, it woundn't make the cut.
(From this article about the potential 10th planet of the solar system (9 is the current recognized number), Pluto, the 9th and currently outmost planet was discredited by the newly discovered planet further away from the Sun)

make the cut by llong August 13, 2006

Didn’t make the cut 

Basically means ya face is ugly

Yasni: yeah my face didn’t make the cut on that picture

Didn’t make the cut by Xxx_gg May 12, 2019

Make the final cut 

Idiom

to be finally selected

For every music album, song-writer writes many more songs out of which 12 or 15 are selected for the release, the rest that don't make the final cut are released in the Deluxe version of the album later on.

Make the final cut by Zami Karzai September 21, 2018