Definition of "live up to" []

• Meet the requirements or expectations of (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Summary: Three years after her return from the Ever After, May Bird, now thirteen, draws her scattered friends—Pumpkin, Fabbio, Beatrice, and Lucius—out of hiding to take a final stand against Evil Bo Cleevil, as May herself makes ready to live up to the prophecy that placed the fate of the Ever After, and her own world, in her hands."
• "To Siry Remudi, the young outlaw, who was driven to uncover the truth about Ibara and live up to the high expectations of his father."
• "The stability augmentation system used on the first two X-15s did not live up to expectations."