meet (someone's) expectations

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meet (someone's) expectations

To be as good as or have the qualities that someone predicted, expected, or hoped for. We'd heard so many good things about the new restaurant, but the food didn't meet our expectations at all. I'm so excited for the latest movie in the series—I hope it meets my expectations!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Alphonzo	al-FAHN-zo	English (Rare)
Rafiq	-	Arabic, Urdu
Pia	PEE-ah (Italian, Danish, German)	Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Polish, Slovene, Late Roman
Tierney	TEER-nee	Irish, English (Rare)
Jami (2)	YAH-mee	Finnish
Bertha	BER-tah (German), BUR-thə (English)	German, English, Ancient Germanic