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1685 R. Lucas Duty of Servants i. ii. 23 Sometimes indeed there is not so much Regard had to your Ability,..and in this case, if your Capacity come not up to their Expectation, you wrong 'em not.

1798 Christian Mag. 2 July 330 Not the utmost gratification of our wishes can yield us happiness: we know not what we ask, nor does enjoyment ever come up to expectation.

1862 Chicago Tribune 20 July The Douglas ratification meeting held here yesterday was hardly up to expectations in regard to attendance.

1871 H. James in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 324/1 If you think so well of me, I shall find it hard to live up to your expectations.

1896 Mass. Ploughman 5 Dec. 5/2 Quite a number of milch cow buyers at the yards, and the trade was up to expectation.

1946 M. Fitt Death & Pleasant Voices (1950) i. i. 30 I can't help thinking that the life here won't come up to your expectations.

1954 Tide 5 June 38/3 The meeting itself lived up to expectation.

1990 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Nov. Neither the food nor the views from the windows were up to expectations.

2002 P. Long Guide to Rural Wales i. 9/1 Some 150 years later, a tower, two wards protected by a curtain wall and an outer ditch were added but the castle failed to live up to expectations.