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The phrase "a yardstick" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used as a metaphor for a standard or measure against which something can be compared or assessed.
Example: "The success of the project will be measured using a yardstick of customer satisfaction and sales growth."
Alternatives: "a benchmark" or "a standard measure".
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"We need a yardstick for success.
A yardstick slides out of his pants.
French red wines served as a yardstick in the study.
* A yardstick or meter stick to measure snowfall.
How good a yardstick is operating cash flow?
But for an entrepreneur, money is merely a yardstick.
Exhaustion has become a yardstick of measuring a meaningful life.
He once said: Be a yardstick of quality.
Now there is one you can measure with a yardstick.
Tom Thumb never grew taller than a yardstick.
It sounds like a very subjective measure, without having cops take out a yardstick and measure.
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