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match up

(BE EQUALLY GOOD) UK phrasal verb with match
 
 
/mætʃ/ verb

Definition

to be as good as another thing, person, or experience: There was so much hype beforehand that it would have been difficult for the film to match up to/with our expectations of it.Balance and imbalance
(Definition of match up (BE EQUALLY GOOD) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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