She did not get the job because she just did not measure up.
These rare, leggy behemoths, native to the waters off Japan, can measure up to 12 feet (3.7 meters) from claw tip to claw tip.
How did he expect anyone to measure up to this?
And while we know that having it all, at least all at the same time, can be a dangerous pipe dream that leaves us second-guessing ourselves and feeling that we don't measure up — still we aspire.
First I will measure up exactly how she sits on her rock at Langelinie so that she is placed in the same way in the Danish Pavilion.
So how does your shampoo measure up?
But the suitor must also measure up in character and honor and local reputation.
