leave a lot to be desired
to be much worse than you would like:
Apparently, Meg's cooking leaves a lot to be desired.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not good enough
- be not on idiom
- beneath
- cop
- deficient
- indefensible
- lame
- leave
- never
- on
- palm
- palm sb off with sth
- sad
- second-rate
- substandard
- unacceptable
- unacceptably
- unsatisfactory
- unsatisfying
- unsound
- weak
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