upmanship 成语

one-upmanship

ability to keep ahead of others, trying to keep an advantage I get tired of his one-upmanship and his desire to always be better than everyone else.

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v., informal Always keeping ahead of others; trying to keep an advantage. No matter what I do, I find that Jim has already done it better. He's an expert at one-upmanship. Jack took the news to the principal while we were still talking about it. He's very quick to practice one-upmanship.
Compare: ONE UP. (The word one-upmanship was made up by a British humorist, Stephen Potter, on the pattern of such words as sportsmanship and workmanship.)

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English Vocalbulary

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