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arriver à la cheville
arriver à la cheville
to measure up to
→ arriver
phrase
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to measure up to
Often used in the negative to say that someone is nowhere near as good as another person.
FR:
Il est difficile d’arriver à la cheville de Marie.
EN:
It’s hard to measure up to Marie.