Definition of "measure up" []

• To meet expectations; to be as good as. (verb)

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• "The most common of the resurrected psychic trends is the general tendency to dissociation or disruption of the personality with the reanimification, in varying degrees, of certain mental deficiencies and inferior types of reaction which are indicative of the relative failure of the patient to measure up to and efficiently deal with and adapt to the struggles of life as he must face and meet them."
• "Just as Lee himself did not hesitate to get rid of subordinates usually by exiling them to a Western command who did not measure up to the stern demands of his offensive-defensive strategy and tactics, so Freeman does not hesitate to detail the weaknesses and mistakes of many of these 193 generals."
• "Carnot Posey of the 16th Mississippi could measure up in the event that W.S. Featherston did not return from his sick leave."