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Phrase(s): up to par
Fig. as good as the standard or average; up to standard. • I’m just not feeling up to par today. I must be coming down with something. • The manager said that the report was not up to par and gave it back to Mary to do over again.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Also, up to scratch or snuff or speed or the mark. Satisfactory, up to a given standard, as in She didn't feel up to par today so she stayed home, or I'm sure he'll come up to scratch when the time comes, or She's up to snuff again. Nearly all the versions of this idiom come from sports, par from golf, scratch and mark from boxing (after being knocked down a fighter had eight seconds to make his way to a mark scratched in the center of the ring), and speed from racing. However, the allusion in the variant with snuff, which dates from the early 1800s, has been lost. upwards of Also, upward of. More than, in excess of, as in Upwards of 30,000 spectators filled the ballpark. [c. 1600]
American Heritage Idioms