to be good enough
to measure something in preparation for making, building, or fitting something else
I measure up the boards and then Joe cuts them.
No woman could measure up to Pele in a fight, in a bed, or anywhere else.
The machines are being trialled to see how they measure up.
Will he measure up to the challenges that lie ahead of him?
`Ella doesn't rate anything that doesn't measure up to Shakespeare or, at the very least, Tennessee Williams.
`Not physically, but from the time I was old enough to know what was expected of me, I was afraid I couldn't measure up.
measures up
measuring up
measured up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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