Phrasal Verbs
to measure something We spent the morning measuring up and deciding where the furniture would go.
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(usually used in negative sentences and questions) to be as good, successful, etc. as expected or needed synonym match up to somebody/something Last year's team just didn't measure up. The job failed to measure up to her expectations.