"up to scratch" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From scratch in the sense of a starting line, as in boxing.",
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        {
          "word": "cut the mustard"
        },
        {
          "word": "make the grade"
        },
        {
          "word": "pass muster"
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        {
          "word": "up to par"
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        {
          "word": "up to snuff"
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          "text": "They decided that his performance was not up to scratch.",
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        {
          "ref": "2023 November 29, Richard Foster, “Tyne & Wear Metro goes with the flow”, in RAIL, number 997, page 32",
          "text": "But the new trains form just one part of Metro Flow. It's no good having new trains if the network itself isn't up to scratch.",
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        "sufficient; adequate; of acceptable or satisfactory quality"
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          "satisfactory",
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          "quality",
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        "(idiomatic) sufficient; adequate; of acceptable or satisfactory quality"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "toe the line"
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  "word": "up to scratch"
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    {
      "word": "pass muster"
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      "word": "up to par"
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    {
      "word": "up to snuff"
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "(idiomatic) sufficient; adequate; of acceptable or satisfactory quality"
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