cut out for one

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You are cut out for one; pity Fortune has baulked Nature!

From The Professor by Brontë, Charlotte

Some are cut out for one thing and some for another!

From St. Elmo by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

"Her and me were never cut out for one another," he remarked at last.

From Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis

“Her and me were never cut out for one another,” he remarked at last.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis

There were never two so cut out for one another; we both love singing, dancing, treats, and music.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir