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all it's cracked up to be en · NOUN

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Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, negative, usually) As good as claims or reputation would suggest.
    • She thinks the Abbeyfield idea sounds great. Let's hope it's all it's cracked up to be. 2016, Dorothy Simpson, Once Too Often:
    • This expensive software is not all it's cracked up to be. It still has a lot of problems.
    • Association executives visit one of the world's most glamorous cities and find that it's all it's cracked up to be. 1977, Meetings and Conventions - Volume 12, page 149:
    • Love is everything its cracked up to be. 2015, Heidi Jacobsen, Sunburnt: Life In The Sun:

Translations (1)

fi niin hienoa kuin sanotaan (as good as claims would suggest)