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not what it is cracked up to be

adjective as in bogus

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Example Sentences

Brick Lane is not what it is cracked up to be.

Infancy is not what it is cracked up to be.

Blood vengeance is not what it is cracked up to be.

I tell you that this office of member of congress is not what it is cracked up to be.

Trust me, boys, this so-called "free and jolly life of the bold outlaw," which so many story-papers picture, whether it be with Brian Boru in distant Ireland, nine hundred years ago, or in Sherwood Forest with Robin Hood, or with some "Buckeye Jim" on our own Montana hill-sides to-day, is not "what it is cracked up to be."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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