measuring stick

The measuring stick isn't an actual stick but the kitchen side of the door between our kitchen and dining room.

Age, surely, is an incontestable measuring stick against which our achievements, our appearance and our tastes can be measured.

Especially if investors and regulators treat accounting rules sensibly: as a measuring stick, not a source of universal truth.

If you want a measuring stick for how you're doing, this is one of the best you can find.

My measuring stick was the great New Yorker cartoonist William Steig.

Because different isotopes decay at different rates, each method provided a slightly different measuring stick.

We use enterprise architecture as the measuring stick upon which the SOA infrastructure and SOA solution reside.

Doctor Sayre says you do not need a measuring stick or a timing device.

Knowing another language gives you a great measuring stick.

There's no Person of the Year measuring stick or algorithm.

Changing the measuring stick isn't a solution to China's inflation problem.

He had set a standard for me. . . he was my measuring stick.

Not the measuring stick.

But in using the Celtics as a measuring stick, it's clear the Lakers have a long way to go.

People have often thought that a cat's whiskers are its measuring stick, too.

your shovel is your measuring stick