a notch below

a notch below somebody/something

not quite as good as someone or something else Fifty years ago, there were many big bands that were good, but they were a notch below the great ones.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Kincaid	[kin'keid]
Bhavana	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam
MaŠA	-	Slovene, Croatian
Aras	-	Lithuanian
KristiĀNa	-	Latvian
Candi	KAN-dee	English