live up to sth
— phrasal verb with live uk/lɪv/us/lɪv/verb
B2 to be as good as something:
The concert was brilliant - it lived up to all our expectations.
More examples
- He never managed to live up to his parents' expectations.
- David's cooking was brilliant - we'll never live up to that.
- I feel it's impossible to live up to his mother.
- The Niagara falls lived up to all the publicity.
- Did the holiday live up to your expectations?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- bear
- go (off) without a hitch idiom
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- kill
- rise
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
- take hold idiom
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