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passing muster
verb
Present participle of pass muster
Exact(27)
For now, Chappaqua's school budgets are passing muster with voters.
There's more to do, though, before passing muster.
For Mrs. Clinton, the next challenge is passing muster with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
(It's hard to see this passing muster since it would increase costs to the Social Security system).
The P.S.B.E.'s first hurdle was a tasting of five existing recipes, and by everyone's reckoning, their odds of passing muster at C.I. were close to nil.
Barely passing muster were the evenly pencilled grids of Agnes Martin, the broody monochromes of Brice Marden, and Ryman's taciturn brushstrokes.
Similar(33)
To pass muster.
One guy passed muster.
It passes muster.
— that passes muster in court.
Which girls would pass muster?
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