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up to scratch

adj

Etymology

From scratch in the sense of a starting line, as in boxing.

Definitions

  1. sufficient

    sufficient; adequate; of acceptable or satisfactory quality

    • They decided that his performance was not up to scratch.
    • But the new trains form just one part of Metro Flow. It's no good having new trains if the network itself isn't up to scratch.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for up to scratch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA