if one thing matches up with another, or if they match up, they are the same or have similar qualities
to be as good as someone or something
to find someone or something that forms the right combination with someone or something else
His performance has not matched up to expectations.
Information received from the two informants didn’t match up.
The British sci-fi film has never matched up to its American counterpart.
You have to match up the inventor to the invention.
``Now, over here we got missing persons and unidentified bodies, and none of them match up.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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