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all it's cracked up to be Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

all it's cracked up to be

As good, enjoyable, impressive, or worthwhile as it is reputed or said to be. Often but not always used in the negative. I'm so impressed with my new cara luxury car really is all it's cracked up to be! Don't get your hopes upI've heard this roller coaster isn't all it's cracked up to be.See also: all, cracked, to, up

See also:

• be not all it's cracked up to be
• be not what it's cracked up to be
• be [not] all beer and skittles
• be a barrel of laughs
• be a bundle of laughs
• a barrel of laughs
• a barrel/bundle of laughs
• barrel of laughs
• good trip
• a good trip

all it's cracked up to be

as good as the ads say, live up to the reports The new computer isn't all it's cracked up to be. It's not so hot.

not all it's cracked up to be

not all it's cracked up to be
It 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]