all it's cracked up to be
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all it's cracked up to be (usually negative, typically related to a negative modifier)
- (idiomatic) As good as claims or reputation would suggest.
- 1977, Meetings and Conventions - Volume 12, page 149:
- Association executives visit one of the world's most glamorous cities and find that it's all it's cracked up to be.
- 2015, Heidi Jacobsen, Sunburnt: Life In The Sun:
- Love is everything its cracked up to be.
- 2016, Dorothy Simpson, Once Too Often:
- She thinks the Abbeyfield idea sounds great. Let's hope it's all it's cracked up to be.
- This expensive software is not all it's cracked up to be. It still has a lot of problems.