what is cracked up to be

what someone or something is cracked up to be

what someone or something is supposed to be. This pizza isn't what it's cracked up to be. I wanted to find out whether this stuff was what it is cracked up to be.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ekaterina	ye-kah-tye-REE-nah (Russian), ee-kah-tee-REE-nah (Russian)	Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian
Doyle	[dɔil]
Lillia	LIL-ee-ə, LIL-yə	English
Nicolasa	nee-ko-LAH-sah	Spanish
Hathor	HAHTH-awr (English)	Egyptian Mythology (Hellenized)
Klemens	KLE-mens (German, Polish)	German, Danish, Swedish, Polish