be up to the mark

to be good enough I have to watch my staff all the time to keep them up to the mark. (often negative) The efforts of the security services have not been quite up to the mark.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Maurycy	mow-RI-tsi	Polish
Bert	BURT (English), BERT (German, Dutch)	English, German, Dutch
Datu	-	Tagalog
Zornitsa	-	Bulgarian
Haines	['hainz]
Mildred	MIL-drəd	English