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
Tali	-	Hebrew
Field	[fi:ld]
Jung-Hoon	jung-hoon	Korean
Gorman	['gɔ:mən]
Eseoghene	-	Western African, Urhobo
Alexandrea	al-əg-ZAN-dree-ə	English (Modern)