English for 'cross the mark'

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In my first language when we talk about some index rising or, for example, somebody climbing a mountain we often use the phrase that can be directly translated into English like 'crossed the mark (of 1 km above the sea)', meaning that the index or the person have reached certain level/altitude and is now above it. Is there a phrase in English that means the same thing and sounds natural?

Laurel · Answer

The same expression is used in English:

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Trudging through 50 miles of wind, rain worth it:

I crossed the 30-mile mark around five hours into the day.

A funny thing happened on the way to the scale: 50 pound mark

Notably, this is about weight loss, just for an example of how the expression also can work in the opposite direction in the right context.

English for 'cross the mark'

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