pass muster
verb/ˌpɑːs ˈmʌst.ə/UK/ˌpæs ˈmʌs.tɚ/US
Etymology
From pass (“to undergo successfully”) + muster (“military assemblage or review”); from 1570s, originally as pass musters.
Definitions
To meet or exceed a particular standard.
- To get a raise, an employee must pass muster with the boss.
- Also passing muster were the loin of lamb in a zinfandel sauce and a variation on chicken marsala served with an avocado, tomato and cheese topping.
- [George] Harrison's all-American band had passed muster on Dark Horse and were the leading performers of the period […]
To adequately pass a formal or informal inspection.
- In any event, the Texas law clearly passes muster under rational basis review, which doesn't presume to grade our citizens' moral judgments as if they were submitted as part of an undergraduate exam in moral philosophy.
- Although I had worked on school newspapers, I did not know what news was — that is, what events would make a story and what combination of words would make it into print after passing muster with the night city editor.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA