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Scottish Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
Up to be
What does the sentence mean below?
Stardom is not what it is cracked up to be.
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g. "not what/all/everything it's cracked up to be". g.
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- "not what/all/everything it's cracked up to be".
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- "not what it's cracked up to be" means "not as good as people say".
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"cracked up to be" is a set expression, almost always used in a negative sense, e.g. "not what/all/everything it's cracked up to be". It means "said to be" or "claimed to be"; e.g. "not what it's cracked up to be" means "not as good as people say".
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