(someone/something) can't hold a candle to (someone/something else)

someone or something is not as good as someone or something else.

For Walter, basketball and football can't hold a candle to baseball.

Usage notes: sometimes used in the form something can hold a candle to something else:

Not one of her drawings can hold a candle to yours.

• see service
• see someone for dust
• see someone for what are
• see someone for what really are
• see someone for what they are
• see someone for what they really are
• see someone in hell before
• see someone in hell before doing something
• see someone in the flesh
• see someone in their true colours
• see someone in true colours
• see someone off
• see someone out
• see someone right
• see someone's true colours
• see someone through
• see someone through something
• see something for what are
• see something for what really are
• see something for what they are
• see something for what they really are
• see something through
• see stars
• see the back of
• see the back of someone