lower the bar

Meaning

1. to set a new, lower standard of quality or performance

   In the current economic climate we may need to lower the bar on quotas.

From the same entry

• lower yourself
• raise your sights
• raise the temperature
• at a low ebb
• be brought low
• lay low
• the lowest of the low
• a high profile
• high and low
• lie low
• sink so low
• stoop so low