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.
See also: below, notch

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
&Aelig;Sc-Anglo-Saxon
Laurinda[lɔ'rində]
Machlah-Biblical Hebrew
Mbali-Southern African, Zulu
Debra['debrə]
Zhong-Chinese