Meaning of up to snuff | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Adequate; of acceptable quality; satisfying an appropriate standard.
   slang
2. Mentally alert, shrewd, savvy.
   British, dated, slang

Examples

“About 40% of U.S. counties lack full-time public-health service. . . . Many registered hospitals are not up to snuff.”

“"Dombey," says the Major, with appropriate action, "that is the hand of Joseph Bagstock: of plain old Joey B. . . . a rough and tough, and possibly an up-to-snuff, old vagabond."”

“But the people, who prided themselves on being what they called üppen zie schnuffen, or, as we should say⟳, "up to snuff," and equal to every occasion, had already seen a way out of the difficulty.”

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