SIZE UP


Meaning of SIZE UP in English

If you size up a person or situation, you carefully look at the person or think about the situation, so that you can decide how to act. ( INFORMAL )

Some US manufacturers have been sizing up the UK as a possible market for their clothes...

He spent the evening sizing me up intellectually.

PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , V n P

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