Expectations!

[RoseSpring]

What's the opposite of "meet one's expectations?"

 

[emsr2d2]

What's the opposite of "meet one's expectations?"

It's to "not meet one's expections" or to "fail to meet one's expectations"!

I went to a restaurant last night. Everyone else told me that it's a great restaurant but it didn't meet my expectations.

She went to see a film which was meant to be fantastic - it even won five Oscars - but if failed to meet her expectations.

 

[RoseSpring]

Thank you very much indeed.

 

[euncu]

What about "not to live up" ?

 

[Nightmare85]

**Neither a teacher nor a native speaker.**

"to not" is not good English.
You should use "not to", as euncu did.

Cheers!

 

[emsr2d2]

**Neither a teacher nor a native speaker.**

"to not" is not good English.
You should use "not to", as euncu did.

Cheers!

That's why I didn't put the first "to" inside the quotation marks. When it's used in a sentence it would become, for example "didn't meet" (rather than "didn't to meet") so the "not" part is within the phrase. However, I take your point!

On sort of the same note, in that case, Euncu's would be "not to live up to", as opposed to "not to live up".