racked up 成语
all it's cracked up to be
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not all sth is cracked up to be
Idiom(s): not all something is cracked up to be AND not what something is cracked up to beTheme: EXPECTATION - UNMET
not as good as something is supposed to be. (Informal. Not always in the negative.)
• This isn't a very good pen. It's not all it's cracked up to be.
• Is this one all it's cracked up to be?
• This restaurant isn't what it's cracked up to be.
not what sth is cracked up to be
Idiom(s): not all something is cracked up to be AND not what something is cracked up to beTheme: EXPECTATION - UNMET
not as good as something is supposed to be. (Informal. Not always in the negative.)
• This isn't a very good pen. It's not all it's cracked up to be.
• Is this one all it's cracked up to be?
• This restaurant isn't what it's cracked up to be.
cracked up|crack up|cracked
adj. phr., informal Favorably described or presented; praised.
Usually used in the expression "not what it's cracked up to be". The independent writer's life isn't always everything it's cracked up to be. In bad weather, a sailing cruise isn't what it's cracked up to be.cracked up
cracked up1) Past tense of crack up.
2) cracked up to be. Reputed to be. This expression is always used in a negative way, as in I don't think this book is all it's cracked up to be. It relies on the now obsolete use of to crack up to mean “to praise extravagantly.” It appeared in The Kentuckian: “He is not the thing he is cracked up for” (May 28, 1829). [Early 1800s]
3) Under the influence of crack (a form of cocaine). For example, “Who's cracked up, who's cracked out, and who's dead?” (World News Tonight, ABC-TV, May 12, 1992). [1980s]
not all it's cracked up to be
not all it's cracked up to beIt is disappointing, it does not live up to its reputation, as in The restaurant wasn't all it's cracked up to be. This term uses crack up in the sense of “to praise,” which survives only in this expression. [Colloquial; early 1800s]
racked up
1. Overwhelmed by acute emotions. Boy, he absolutely got racked up over the afterlife of his dog. You're the alone man who's anytime gotten me racked up like this.2. Having incurred abounding concrete injuries or abundant abuse; baffled up. You can absolutely get racked up arena rugby if you don't use the able anatomy and technique. He was appealing racked up by the end of the fight.Learn more: rack, upracked
verbSee racked upLearn more: rackracked
mod. addled in the testicles. (Usually objectionable.) The quarterback got racked and didn’t comedy the blow of the quarter. Learn more: rackracked (up)
mod. booze or biologic intoxicated. (Learn added rack up.) They drank till they were acceptable and racked. Learn more: rack, up
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