stack up

Relationship psychologist Anjula Mutanda says: "Your partner may have made a lot of effort, but in your mind, they don't quite stack up to your high standard."

The model was then tested to see if its predictions stacked up using data from other Biobank participants, and then with 1.9 million people's medical records in Denmark.

A staggering sum, yes, but also a familiar pattern: a real, systemic problem quietly stacking up, while local news cycles fixate on the heroic interventions that never actually solve it.

It looks quite likely Phillipson will stack up a very big number of supporters, further squeezing the remaining votes to be fought over.

So it’d be like two weeks of them, I could make a stool and make a table with a full week’s worth stacked up.