cracked up to be

Being the spouse of a military soldier definitely isn't all that it's cracked up to be, but I do say it has made me a stronger person.

He's not nearly such a good writer as he's cracked up to be.

Perhaps, but recent experience makes me wonder whether insight is all it's cracked up to be.

And let me just say this about derivatives: You may know I went on to work at Merrill Lynch. Derivatives ain't all they're cracked up to be.

A second lesson is that the benefits to a small country of being part of a big currency union are not all they were once cracked up to be.

The Wall Street Journal has a piece today declaring happiness is not all it's cracked up to be.

WHETHER America's famed philanthropic tradition is all it is cracked up to be will become much clearer during the next few years.

It is at least worth noting, however, that forest people are not always the tree-huggers they are cracked up to be.

So could it be that talking is not the marital cure-all it's cracked up to be?

This book isn't as good as it cracked up to be.

So is the traditional college education really alleged cracked, cracked up to be these days.

He was simply not the genius he was cracked up to be.

However, most stars are not as bright as they are cracked up to be.

Ginger: You mean grass isn't all it's cracked up to be?

This expensive car is not whatit's cracked up to be.

The real problem with the peace prize, as past laureates have discovered, is that winning isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Divorce isn't all it's cracked up to be, huh?

But are such trials all they are cracked up to be?

Turns out winning isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially when your friends start to treat you like their personal ATM.

Was it not everything that you thought it was cracked up to be

Things ain't always what they seem or cracked up to be (okay)