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• Of course, that combo wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 6 July 2022
• Getting saved from drowning by A.C. Slater isn't all it's cracked up to be.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 20 June 2020
• But the move likely isn't all it's cracked up to be, say fitness experts.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 26 May 2021
• Either way, the culture at Halas Hall isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
  — Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2021
• Then again, based on the way the matchups are setting up, finishing top three in the East might not be all that it’s cracked up to be.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
• Gbenga knows that America isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2021
• Holly wants the perfect guy — but is perfection all that it's cracked up to be?
  — Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2022
• And: Status as a senior lender with a collateral claim is not all that it is cracked up to be.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 29 Dec. 2020
• Hand-washing, though still important, was not all it was cracked up to be, and herd immunity, in the end, was a mirage.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2023
• While so many of us would definitely loved to play a role in the Twilight movies, Anna Kendrick is revealing that filming the series wasn't what it was all cracked up to be.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 9 June 2020
• In the end, though, the narrative around that celebrated team as the most diverse in the history of women’s bobsled wasn’t necessarily all it was cracked up to be.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022
• Second, recent research suggests that enabling video in group settings might not be as good for communication as it’s been cracked up to be.
  — Jeremy Tooley, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• Maybe journalistic objectivity isn’t all it was cracked up to be?
  — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a group of high schoolers fight monsters and demons while attempting to live normal lives, before coming to the realization that perhaps normal lives aren't all they were cracked up to be.
  — Laurie Penny, Wired, 18 June 2020
• But since they’ll also be held in enclosures, put on public display and marketed as plush toys and other forms of merchandise, their liberation may not be all it’s cracked up to be.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
• According to a dozen prominent antiquities dealers, collectors, and archaeologists, not to mention the Alamo’s longtime official historian, the Collins collection is not what it’s cracked up to be.
  — Chris Tomlinson, San Antonio Express-News, 20 May 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024