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Phrase(s): cracked up to be something [and] cracked up to be; cracked up as something
alleged or understood to be something. • She was cracked up to be a pretty good player. • She was cracked up as a pretty good golfer. • (Used with the negative.) He is not the problem solving CEO that he was cracked up to be.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs