live up
Verb
Meaning
live up (third-person singular simple present lives up, present participle living up, simple past and past participle lived up)
(intransitive) (followed by to) To fulfil the expectations placed upon one.
She never lived up to her reputation.
The holidays didn't live up to the advertiser's claims.
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Examples
It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them.
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
May you live up to one hundred years and i up to ninety-nine.
Give a dog a bad name and he'll live up to it. (or ...he'll repay you for it.)