Idiom
all it's cracked up to be
Meaning
As good as claims or reputation would suggest.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The movie wasn't all it's cracked up to be.”
“Everyone said Paris was magical, but the rainy week we spent there wasn't all it's cracked up to be.”
“Years of anticipation had built the novel into something untouchable in his mind, yet when he finally read it, he found it wasn't all it's cracked up to be.”
Examples
simple
“The movie wasn't all it's cracked up to be.”
contextual
“Everyone said Paris was magical, but the rainy week we spent there wasn't all it's cracked up to be.”
complex
“Years of anticipation had built the novel into something untouchable in his mind, yet when he finally read it, he found it wasn't all it's cracked up to be.”
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