leaves a lot to be desired

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• leave a lot to be desired — leave a lot/much/to be desired phrase to be of a very low quality or standard I feel the quality of some of our policemen leaves a lot to be desired. Thesaurus: words used to describe standardssynonym Main entry …   Useful english dictionary

• leave a lot to be desired — to be much worse than you would like. Apparently, Meg s cooking leaves a lot to be desired. (never in continuous tenses) …   New idioms dictionary

• leave a much to be desired — leave a lot/much/to be desired phrase to be of a very low quality or standard I feel the quality of some of our policemen leaves a lot to be desired. Thesaurus: words used to describe standardssynonym Main entry …   Useful english dictionary

• leave much to be desired — leave much (or a lot) to be desired be highly unsatisfactory * * * leave much to be desired (or leave a lot to be desired or leave a great deal to be desired) used to say that something is not very good at all or is not close to being good enough …   Useful english dictionary

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