Match up to / master up to

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Are both 'match up to someone' and 'master up to someone' correct?I heard the latter used in the same sense as well, but I'm not sure if it's grammatically correct.Thank you.

Clive · Accepted Answer

match up to is OK, but I don't know if you understand what it means.

master up to is correct grammar but it doesn't make any sense.

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Are both 'match up to someone' and 'master up to someone' correct?
I heard the latter used in the same sense as well, but I'm not sure if it's grammatically correct.

"master up to someone" — never heard it. It's completely grammatical, however.

fraze.it has only one example and it's "master up to something":

Perhaps he has an underlying feeling of inadequacy that makes each ride another test he must master up to in order to feel acceptable as a person.

I didn't find any examples in Google Ngrams in the sense of "match up to someone" — just examples like He used to pay the master up to $50 a year.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=master+up+to%2Cmatch+up+to&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmaster%20up%20to%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cmatch%20up%20to%3B%2Cc0

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