stack up
phrasal verbstack up
- to keep increasing in quantity until there is a large pile, a long line, etc.
- Cars quickly stacked up behind the bus.
- During the strike, refuse has been stacking up in the streets.
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- (used especially in questions or in negatives) to compare with somebody/something else; to be as good as somebody/something else synonym measure up (to something/somebody)
- Let's try him in the job and see how he stacks up.
- stack up against somebody/something A mobile home simply doesn't stack up against a traditional house.
- (used especially in negatives) to seem reasonable; to make sense
- That can't be right. It just doesn't stack up.