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Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms
... would it be better to start from scratch? up to scratch at an acceptable standard
or quality ♢ We're giving him a week to bring the team up to scratch, usage: often
used in the form not up to scratch: I'm afraid your last essay wasn't up to scratch.
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
9 initiate the briefest investigation to discover something concealed. up to scratch
up to the required standard; satisfactory. you scratch my back and I'll scratch
yours if you do me a favour, I will return it. proverb screaming give someone the ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
... up to scratch (fig) to reach an expected standard; to fulfil an obligation; start
from scratch (fig) lo start at the beginning; to embark on (a task, career, etc)
without any advantages, experience or without any preparatory work having
been done; ...
Jt- i&sS^sKjf W (Scratch the surface and you'll find some very shady goings-on. to
start from scratch H START up to scratch iHSlJtf¥a)cWAt< (Her work was not up to
scratch, fft X ^ ^ a" you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours screw to have a ...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... cut, laceration, wound. 2 there was a large dent in the panel and a scratch in
the paint: score, mark, line, abrasion, scrape, scuff, laceration, groove, gash,
gouge. 1 up to scratch the workmanship once again is up to scratch: good
enough, ...
Well, this is a grave man who is writing our story here, a man who believes that, if
his dead Papa could see him, he would find his "corpse not yet quite up to
scratch". To "come up to scratch" is a term from the old days of bare knuckle
boxing.
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Advanced Learner's Dictionary
4 itchy, start from scratch start from the very beginning, up to scratch (informal) up
to standard. < probably of Germanic origin. SEE PANEL scrawl (skr.i:!) vb, a (write
in) awkward, careless handwriting. < origin unknown. scrawny ( 'skrrrm ) adj ...
"idioms from scratch from the beginning, without using anything that already
exists: Ben built the shed from scratch. . up to scratch reaching an acceptable
standard: Your last essay wasn't up to scratch/didn't come up to scratch. "
adjective uk ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins
The expression up to scratch, meaning 'up to the required standard', also comes
from this practice, as originally it referred to someone who was good enough to
start from the scratch line. Napoleon had bad experiences in Russia. In 1812 the
...
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Practical Everyday English: A New Method of Learning ...
To be/COme/get Up tO Scratch (To be/make something good enough, as good as
it should be - often used in the negative) Examples: • / can get by in Spanish, but
my French is not quite up to scratch. • The new ABC computer has a lot of ...
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Home Wi-Fi isn't up to scratch for many in the UK
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Lecturers' skills not up to scratch, says Eton head
The outgoing headmaster of one of the UK's most prestigious private schools has lamented university teaching standards, suggesting that lecturers would ... «Times Higher Education, Lip 15»
Critter Corne: New furniture up to scratch for cat
Dear Miss Behavin': We recently remodeled our home and updated our furniture and our cat has already damaged the couch and dining room chairs. We've ... «San Jose Mercury News, Lip 15»
Hall quartet come up to scratch
Hall quartet come up to scratch ... Bradley Hall won the Halifax-Huddersfield Union's Scratch Team Championship for the ninth time in the last 22 years at ... «Halifax Evening Courier, Cze 15»
Troy Flea Market's up to scratch
Troy Community Garage Sale and Flea Market is 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 30, in the Liberty Center Parking Garage at Livernois, north of Big Beaver. «The Macomb Daily, Maj 15»
From Cannes: "Youth" Not Quite Up to Scratch
Two years after “The Great Beauty,” a grandiose love letter to Rome, director Paolo Sorrentino has returns with a film extremely similar in regard both to the style ... «Harvard Crimson, Maj 15»
Angels' Matt Joyce fesses up to scratch, says he was late to ballpark
Matt Joyce fessed up as to the real reason he was scratched from Monday's lineup against the Toronto Blue Jays: The Angels left fielder thought it was a night ... «Los Angeles Times, Maj 15»
Service levels here still not up to scratch: Experts
Ms Jackie Condat interacting with patrons at Bukit Timah eatery Little Diner. For her, little things like getting to know patrons by name and writing them ... «The Straits Times, Maj 15»
Hawkesbury track surface not up to scratch
But it was a poor look to have the meeting called off after more than 4000 punters had turned up in the rain and it could hurt Hawkesbury's standalone Saturday ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Maj 15»
Bobcat bill up to scratch
Raleigh, N.C. — The fourth-graders at Benvenue Elementary School in Rocky Mount were studying up on their mascot, a bobcat, recently and realized that, ... «WRAL.com, Kwi 15»