up to snuff

Definitions

1. 1

   Adequate

   Adequate; of acceptable quality; satisfying an appropriate standard.

   • About 40% of U.S. counties lack full-time public-health service. . . . Many registered hospitals are not up to snuff.
2. 2

   Mentally alert, shrewd, savvy.

   • "Dombey," says the Major, with appropriate action, "that is the hand of Joseph Bagstock: of plain old Joey B. . . . a rough and tough, and possibly an up-to-snuff, old vagabond."
   • But the people, who prided themselves on being what they called üppen zie schnuffen, or, as we should say, "up to snuff," and equal to every occasion, had already seen a way out of the difficulty.

The neighborhood

• synonymup to par
• synonymup to scratch
• neighborcut the mustard
• neighbormake the grade
• neighborpass muster
• neighbornot bad