marry up

verb

1. (tr) to join

2. (intr) to tally or correspond

   the reactor did not marry up to his expectations

3. (intr) to marry someone of a higher social class than oneself

Example Sentences

Her boxing profile does not yet marry up with her abilities, however.

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Again, it does not marry up with the amount of praise he receives when he is playing well.

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“The best possible scenario you would love those timelines to marry up a little bit better. So that was the hardest part.”

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We were deep into the prosecution case, and I still couldn't marry up Letby's apparent normality with the enormity of the allegations she was facing - but the case against her was beginning to stack up.

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“We figured out a day before we started shooting that these things don’t quite marry up,” said Johnstone, who turned to FIN Design and Effects of Australia to blend his M3GANs together.

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