"Be not up to much" nghĩa là gì?

"Be not up to much" = không đáng gì nhiều -> nghĩa là đáng thất vọng hoặc kém chất lượng.

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On the road, the engine is still driving all four wheels and what with the weight of the heavier drivetrain and a shape rather less aerodynamic (khí động lực) than a small barn, performance is not up to much and neither is economy for such a small vehicle.

The crisis has also deepened concerns among Tories about the quality of the ministers in the cabinet. One former minister said that what was needed now was “the A team”, but that this was not what Johnson had appointed. “We have got a very inexperienced cabinet dealing with problems the like of which nobody has ever seen before,” he said. “A lot of them are not up to much and none of them are fantastic, not any of them. When Johnson came in, they put the A team on the backbenches.”

“We are owed a refund because the product is not up to scratch. Clearly, virtual teaching is not up to much otherwise surely it would have been instituted years ago,” said Samuel Hall, a third-year history and politics student at Aberystwyth University. “Refunds would help poorer students with the tech support that's needed. I'm financially fine but if, worst case scenario, my phone and laptop gave up in the same week, I would effectively be excluded from my learning.”

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