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Meantolearn Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

raising the bar

Is it an idiom? What does it mean?

It's been used as a trademark by a wireless phone company.

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Raising the bar = Increasing the difficulty of the challenge/competition/criteria. It comes from athletics competition-- the high jump or the pole vault-- where the crossbar is raised gradually until only one competitor remains.

— Mister Micawber

  • Raising the bar = Increasing the difficulty of the challenge/competition/criteria.
  • It comes from athletics competition-- the high jump or the pole vault-- where the crossbar is raised gradually until only one competitor remains.
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Raising the bar = Increasing the difficulty of the challenge/competition/criteria. It comes from athletics competition-- the high jump or the pole vault-- where the crossbar is raised gradually until only one competitor remains.
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