bear comparison or stand comparison

Naguib Mahfouz wrote with wry wit about the bruising, raucous, chaotic anthill of Cairo. The Egyptian novelist who bore comparison with Balzac and Dickens was born on this day in 1911

Naguib Mahfouz: wit, satirist and perfect gentleman

Naguib Mahfouz, a great Egyptian writer, was born on December 11th, 1911

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bear comparison or or stand comparison

Definitions

1. to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably