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What does measure up mean?

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  1. (idiomatic) To meet expectations; to be as good as.
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The agent came today, half an hour early, to measure up the rooms, note details and take photographs.
The tusk of whale or narwhal is spirally curved, and can measure up to 2.5 m in length.
Nowhere did they measure up to the advertising folders, or to the conception these had formed in my mind's eye.
Jimmy was an able judge of stock and could measure up an animal in quick time.
Under that model, teachers, students, and schools are gauged by how their test scores measure up.
Obviously, girls should not be trained for military service in the barracks because our barracks so far do not measure up to world standards.

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