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up to par
Also,. Satisfactory, up to a given standard, as in She didn't feel up to par today so she stayed home, or I'm sure he'll come up to scratch when the time comes, or She's up to snuff again. Nearly all the versions of this idiom come from sports, par from golf, scratch and mark from boxing (after being knocked down a fighter had eight seconds to make his way to a mark scratched in the center of the ring), and speed from racing. However, the allusion in the variant with snuff, which dates from the early 1800s, has been lost.
Example Sentences
āOur coaching staff has done a great job of getting guys like me and these other transfers up to par and up to speed,ā Armella said, āso I have no doubt in my mind that heāll be able to come in here and be able to fit into the system. Heās going to be new here, but at the end of the day heāll be able to get it done.ā
While Latorre advertised himself on his Instagram and other social media as a āplastic surgeon board certifiedā in Argentina and a āregistered nurse first assistantā in the U.S. who worked on āeducational medical teaching,ā law enforcement said that his medical qualifications were not up to par when he treated a woman three times in 2021.
"It obviously was not the result I wanted, but of course in the first couple of sets the level of tennis wasnāt up to par from my side," Djokovic said.
Piazzas are being repaved, bike paths charted and 5G cells built, all aiming to bring the Eternal City up to par with other European capitals and take advantage of the 1.3 billion euros in special Jubilee funding and some 3 billion euros more in other public and EU funds that are available.
Service members and military veterans on the Reddit news and discussion site said the reasons recruiting was not up to par in 2023 and likely wonāt improve much in 2024 range from poor living conditions in the barracks to toxic unit-level leadership.
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