"set the bar" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sets the bar",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "setting the bar",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set the bar",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set the bar",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "set<,,set> the bar"
      },
      "expansion": "set the bar (third-person singular simple present sets the bar, present participle setting the bar, simple past and past participle set the bar)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to set the bar high; to set the bar low",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "She set the bar at an hour of exercise a day.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 18, Christina Jewett, “F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "“I do feel like we should be setting the bar higher for review,” said one adviser, Dr. Amanda Cohn, the director of the division of birth defects and infant disorders at the C.D.C., adding that more data might help clarify questions about the effects on preterm birth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set specific standards or expectations."
      ],
      "id": "en-set_the_bar-en-verb-fcph2mVe",
      "links": [
        [
          "specific",
          "specific"
        ],
        [
          "standards",
          "standards"
        ],
        [
          "expectations",
          "expectations"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To set specific standards or expectations."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "raise the bar"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "put the bar"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "asettaa rima"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "placer la barre"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "mettre la barre"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "ustawiać poprzeczkę"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "ustawić poprzeczkę"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "set the bar"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sets the bar",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "setting the bar",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set the bar",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set the bar",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "set<,,set> the bar"
      },
      "expansion": "set the bar (third-person singular simple present sets the bar, present participle setting the bar, simple past and past participle set the bar)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "raise the bar"
    }
  ],
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to set the bar high; to set the bar low",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "She set the bar at an hour of exercise a day.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 18, Christina Jewett, “F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "“I do feel like we should be setting the bar higher for review,” said one adviser, Dr. Amanda Cohn, the director of the division of birth defects and infant disorders at the C.D.C., adding that more data might help clarify questions about the effects on preterm birth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set specific standards or expectations."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "specific",
          "specific"
        ],
        [
          "standards",
          "standards"
        ],
        [
          "expectations",
          "expectations"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To set specific standards or expectations."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "put the bar"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "asettaa rima"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "placer la barre"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "mettre la barre"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ustawiać poprzeczkę"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "ustawić poprzeczkę"
    }
  ],
  "word": "set the bar"
}