notch below

Not as good as something else in the same category. Joanne is a good author, but her books are a notch below best-sellers in the same genre.

notch below (someone or something)

Fig. a little lower in quality than someone or something. I believe that this wine is a notch below the one we had with the fish.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ilma	EEL-mah	Finnish
Marlene	mahr-LE-nə (German), MAHR-leen (English)	German, English
Henri	awn-REE (French), HEN-ree (Finnish)	French, Finnish
Asaf	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
HorÁCio	-	Portuguese
Ibrahima	-	Western African