"measure up" meaning in English

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      "form": "measuring up",
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      "form": "measured up",
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It's a passable substitute, but it will never measure up to the original.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To meet expectations; to be as good as."
      ],
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          "expectations",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To meet expectations; to be as good as."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "note": "gleichziehen (often used with mit (etwas, jemandem))",
          "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
          "tags": [
            "with-dative"
          ],
          "word": "gleichkommen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "note": "ein Vergleich sein (chiefly in the negative, often used with zu (etwas, jemandem))",
          "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
          "word": "auf der Höhe sein"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
          "word": "megfelel"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
          "word": "essere all'altezza"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "mierzyć siły na zamiary"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
          "word": "fi la înălțimea"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "note": "(usually with the negative particle nu) se compara",
          "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sootvétstvovatʹ",
          "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
          "word": "соотве́тствовать"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "udovletvorjátʹ",
          "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
          "word": "удовлетворя́ть"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
          "word": "dar la talla"
        }
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  "word": "measure up"
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      "form": "measures up",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "measuring up",
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        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "measured up",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "measured up",
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        {
          "text": "It's a passable substitute, but it will never measure up to the original.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To meet expectations; to be as good as."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To meet expectations; to be as good as."
      ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "gleichziehen (often used with mit (etwas, jemandem))",
      "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
      "tags": [
        "with-dative"
      ],
      "word": "gleichkommen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "ein Vergleich sein (chiefly in the negative, often used with zu (etwas, jemandem))",
      "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
      "word": "auf der Höhe sein"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
      "word": "megfelel"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
      "word": "essere all'altezza"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "mierzyć siły na zamiary"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
      "word": "fi la înălțimea"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "note": "(usually with the negative particle nu) se compara",
      "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sootvétstvovatʹ",
      "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
      "word": "соотве́тствовать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "udovletvorjátʹ",
      "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
      "word": "удовлетворя́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "To meet expectations; to be as good as",
      "word": "dar la talla"
    }
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  "word": "measure up"
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