hold you up against it

English translation: compare your performance to that model

17:29 Feb 3, 2021
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Science - Management
English term or phrase: hold you up against it
If you’re a manager, your boss might show you the company’s supervisor-behaviors model, hold you up against it, and tell you what you need to do to more closely hew to it.
Masoud Kakouli Varnousfaderani
Türkiye
Local time: 23:26
Selected answer:compare your performance to that model
Explanation:
this is how I understand it!
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Shilpa Baliga
Local time: 21:26
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4 +5compare your performance to that model
Shilpa Baliga
4 +3compare you/your behaviour to it
Yvonne Gallagher
3compare with
Fátima Martínez


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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
compare your performance to that model


Explanation:
this is how I understand it!

Shilpa Baliga
Local time: 21:26
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tina Vonhof (X): That's a nice way to put it.
3 mins
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agree  philgoddard: You were first!
53 mins
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agree  Teresa Goncalves
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agree  AllegroTrans
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agree  Mariana Guilherme
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
compare you/your behaviour to it


Explanation:
see how you/your behaviour matches up to it and what needs to be changed

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 20:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 51

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Liane Lazoski
13 mins
  -> Many thanks:-)

agree  Charlotte Fleming
27 mins
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agree  Katalin Horváth McClure
1 day 20 hrs
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
compare with


Explanation:
Found this, hope it helps. I think it fits in this context.


    https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/hold-up-against.2241527/
Fátima Martínez
Spain
Local time: 21:26
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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