"up to the mark" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2008, D. G. Mulcahy, The Educated Person: Toward a New Paradigm for Liberal Education, page 37:",
          "text": "He is up to the mark in literature and the arts, in history, and in public affairs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Possessing adequate knowledge or skill."
      ],
      "id": "en-up_to_the_mark-en-prep_phrase-1H6ECNIf",
      "links": [
        [
          "adequate",
          "adequate"
        ],
        [
          "knowledge",
          "knowledge"
        ],
        [
          "skill",
          "skill"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 95",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 97",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries\n'Do you mind if I just pop in for a wee moment, Roy?' she asked. 'I expect that it's Miss Barrowford gardening, and it will save me writing. G.F.S. business, you know.'\n'All right,' her husband replied. 'Only don't forget me and stay to supper.'\n'The idea! As if I ever—I'll catch you up—or won't you come in too? You know her.'\n'No,' he decided. 'If I do we shall be talking there for an hour. I won't go right on either. I'll just hang about in the middle distance to keep you up to the mark.'"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Performing as expected or desired; on one's toes."
      ],
      "id": "en-up_to_the_mark-en-prep_phrase-~xgCSR6d",
      "links": [
        [
          "on one's toes",
          "on one's toes"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "up to the mark"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English prepositional phrases",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2008, D. G. Mulcahy, The Educated Person: Toward a New Paradigm for Liberal Education, page 37:",
          "text": "He is up to the mark in literature and the arts, in history, and in public affairs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Possessing adequate knowledge or skill."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "adequate",
          "adequate"
        ],
        [
          "knowledge",
          "knowledge"
        ],
        [
          "skill",
          "skill"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries\n'Do you mind if I just pop in for a wee moment, Roy?' she asked. 'I expect that it's Miss Barrowford gardening, and it will save me writing. G.F.S. business, you know.'\n'All right,' her husband replied. 'Only don't forget me and stay to supper.'\n'The idea! As if I ever—I'll catch you up—or won't you come in too? You know her.'\n'No,' he decided. 'If I do we shall be talking there for an hour. I won't go right on either. I'll just hang about in the middle distance to keep you up to the mark.'"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Performing as expected or desired; on one's toes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "on one's toes",
          "on one's toes"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "up to the mark"
}