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live up to

Date: Apr 24 2008

Quote

1. Quote - Listen to the quote and guess what the slang means.

“I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.”

- Madonna on being named Madonna. (Vanity Fair)

Definition

1. Definition - Study the definition.

to be as promised

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

The world is full of promises. Sometimes names are promises. Think of the Great Wall of China or the Grand Canyon. They sure better be great and grand with names like that. Luckily, they live up to their names.

To live up to something is to deliver on a promise or expectation. If a son disappoints his father, you could say that he didn’t live up to his father’s hopes.

American pop singer Madonna has an unusually religious name. In order to live up to it, she would have to be a nun…or the exact opposite of one. If you’ve ever seen a Madonna video, you know which she chose.

Examples

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“Wally lived up to all the bad things I’d heard about him and then some.”

“The band is getting so much attention that it will be hard for them to live up to the hype.”

Winners

1. Winners - See who guessed the slang definition correctly.

	to fulfil, by holly&honey
	1. To live or act in accordance with: lived up to their parents' ideals. 2. To prove equal to: a new technology that did not live up to our expectations. 3. To carry out; fulfill: lived up to her end of the bargain by bahaa_diab
	to be or do according to what is expected or promised;in this case, maybe, to measure up to what her name suggests by nad1a
	Is live in consequence with is name. by praedos
	someone's behavior are fulfill with original expectation or target by tracyyue72
	to be as promised by 永恒破灭者
	meet expectations by tainap
	i think this slang means act according to sth , means madoona was born to be madonna, to reach her name and come up to her role in world by SAEID
	To be as good as people expect or hope... by Rasoul.kh
	achieve a standard of a predetermined level by haitham.mohammad
	If someone or something lives up to what they were expected to be, they are as good as they were expected to be. by efsun.333@hotmail.com
	she is so fulfill to her name. by senior electronics engineer
	to achieve, to fulfil someone's expectations and to achieve a standard. by Sweeta
	to be as good as you said or thought something would be. by LASBREY
	to live just like the meaning of her name. by renpeng.cn
	behave according to expectations. by Yüksali
	do sth to match what you are expected to do by alexmyx1984
	to fulfil an expectation by Pavlionka
	i think it means that in your name is your destiny :) by vigoss
	"Live up to "means that meet one's expectations and not let somebody down by Jack1987
	I guess that 'live up to' means some kind of a destiny or fate. That is Madonna has a destiny to become Madonna. Does it make sense? by Bob Ishida
	The phrase "live up to" here means; she is living accordingly with the significance of her name. by denis312
	"To live up" means that you are as good as was expected, promised. When you deserve it. by Biscuitty

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Comments

king yasser

Yemen

progress your life and improve your skills to day, do not leave it tomorrow because tomorrow might never come and make your self in truth not in dreams because the life will be run away.

RockMadonna

Sweden

Well Madonna is my idol I love her!!

aryan1083

Turkey

hello

maylissa972

Cote D'Ivoire

hi stephanie me is I want you to know

mr khan

Pakistan

thats really great

kas35ya

Egypt

madonna is agreat

Reuben Jumbo

Nigeria

Doing or being what’s expected of you by people, authority etc.

plasma

Ukraine

My favourite singer!!!

eisan79sunday

Myanmar

“live up to” means is,”people who always believed them-self n to be progress their life by self contro event.Mandonna also..she has to try out to be best in her life by a lot of difficulty.