set the bar

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set the bar (third-person singular simple present sets the bar, present participle setting the bar, simple past and past participle 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

• raise the bar

• “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.

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