Do we say pass muster or pass mustard

pass muster 59 occurrences

Now all I have to do is, not to go to the second-hand slop-shops for the phrase-coat I need for my naked discovery, but look for some unfamiliar robe,some name more recherché, learned, and transcendental than my neighbors sport,and then I shall pass muster.

" Mr. Clarkson emitted a dismal groan, and clapping his hand over his mouth strove to make it pass muster as a yawn.

" Mr. Clarkson emitted a dismal groan, and clapping his hand over his mouth strove to make it pass muster as a yawn.

not pass muster, barely pass muster; fall short &c 304.

Such an historian would hardly pass muster with a Scotch stationer in a sieveful of ballads and godly books.

Hence the growth of goods meant not for use but for salejerry-built houses, adulterated food, sham cloth and leather, botched work of every sort, designed merely to pass muster in a hurried act of sale.

" "And did I pass muster?"

I assume that the acting is merely competent enough to pass muster without irritating us, and so distracting our attention.]

It is too obviously irrational and anti-social to pass muster in modern costume.

" "I guess that's true enough to pass muster," he chuckled to himself as he walked away.

Rather it is incisive satire, with too biting an undercurrent to pass muster in the company of the genial in literature.

In one scene he is surrounded by a band of drunken companions and dancing-girls, in costumes and positions that would hardly pass muster before our Lord Chamberlain.

Their Russian was good enough to pass muster when confined to short sentences of a formal kind.

At length she pronounced that they ought to pass muster at a casual inspection, and then, bidding them good-night, she retired to her own room, while the lads were soon asleep, the one on the couch, the other on the hearthrug.

Those who conform to these renderings will pass muster; the rest will be rejected.

There'd be a committee of investigation appointed on the spot, an' I shouldn't pass muster excipt for a whisky-barrel, och hone!

A horse with the cartilage in this transition state will therefore pass muster, and a nice little point of ethics has again to be decided by the veterinary surgeon before giving his signature to a certificate of examination of an animal in this condition.

My memory won't pass muster any more; but if there's one event that will never escape its grasp, it is the singular death of Jonathan Riley.

Unverified allegations that would not pass muster with even a trainee in a national newspaper find play on the front pages.

I beheld a young girl with eyes and skin of the clearest and brightest, and lips of brilliant scarlet, and a chest and pair of arms which would pass muster with the best.

She is not ill-looking, and might pass muster in her best dress were it not for a squareness of build, like the set of a man rather than the full curves associated with woman.

His captive corresponded so closely to the one advertised that he could be made to pass muster as such, and the reward secured.

All that the taste, art and wealth of that day could do, was done to make it a splendid apartment, and it would pass muster still as a comfortable and respectable salon.

Modern negative criticism generally adopts the latter solution, with the result that not a score of pictures pass muster, and the virtues of these chosen few are so extolled as to make it all but impossible to see the reverse of the medal.

Some of these jockers had as many as four of these lads, whose ages ranged from ten to twenty years, and whose sizes were from that of mere children to fellows who shaved themselves daily so as to pass muster as "road kids".

pass mustard 0 occurrences

Do we say   pass muster   or  pass mustard