evaluate (someone or something) as (something)

evaluate (someone or something) as (something)

To categorize or conceive of someone or something in a certain way in order to judge or grade them appropriately. Well, of course you were critiqued more harshly—she evaluated you as the professional dancer you are! We should evaluate this raw data as just that—not contextualized statistics.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

evaluate someone as something

to judge someone's performance as something. I will have to evaluate you as a new student. We must evaluate ourselves as teachers and leaders.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • evaluate
  • evaluate as
  • list (someone or something) among
  • list among
  • listing
  • lump (someone or something) (in) with (someone or something)
  • lump with
  • tar people with the same brush
  • tar somebody/something with the same brush
  • tarred with the same brush