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動詞

set the bar (三人称単数 現在形 sets the bar, 現在分詞 setting the bar, 過去形および過去分詞形 set the bar)

1. (idiomatic) To set specific standards or expectations.

   She set the bar at an hour of exercise a day.

   to set the bar high; to set the bar low

   Synonym: put the bar

   • 2023 May 18, Christina Jewett, “F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     “I do feel like we should be setting the bar higher for review,” said one adviser, Dr. Amanda Cohn, the director of the division of birth defects and infant disorders at the C.D.C., adding that more data might help clarify questions about the effects on preterm birth.

関連する語

• raise the bar

Further reading

• “set the bar”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “set the bar high low” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

アナグラム

• breathest, hartbeest