up to snuff

Definition

Adequate; of acceptable quality; satisfying an appropriate standard.

Example Sentences

• "About 40% of U.S. counties lack full-time public-health service. . . . Many registered hospitals are not up to snuff."
• ""Dombey," says the Major, with appropriate action, "that is the hand of Joseph Bagstock: of plain old Joey B. . . . a rough and tough, and possibly an up-to-snuff, old vagabond.""
• "But the people, who prided themselves on being what they called üppen zie schnuffen, or, as we should say, "up to snuff," and equal to every occasion, had already seen a way out of the difficulty."