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
Mandeep	-	Indian (Sikh)
Yorick	YAWR-ik (English), YAW-rik (Dutch), YO-rik (Dutch)	Literature, English, Dutch
Hoyt	HOIT	English
Emilis	-	Lithuanian
Flossie	['flɔsi]
Enes	-	Turkish, Bosnian