measure up

Verb

Meaning

prove capable or fit; meet requirements

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I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal he has. I think that even the bitterest satirist, even a man like Swift, was probably rather an optimist at heart. John Dos Passos

Are all Polish men as arrogant and intrusive and rude as you?” "Few measure up to my standards, but most try. Orson Scott Card

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think? Jodi Picoult

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. Bryant H. McGill

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects. Ashton Eaton

Do not measure up the wood before the tree is cut down. Madagascan Proverb

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