Английский словарь американских идиом - one-upmanship
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One-upmanship
one-upmanship
{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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2.
If you refer to someone’s behaviour as one-upmanship, you disapprove of them trying to make other people feel inferior in order to make themselves appear more important. ...political one-upmanship. N-UNCOUNT: oft supp N c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
3.
also one-upsmanship noun Date: 1952 the art or practice of outdoing or keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor engaged in a round of verbal ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
4.
1. разг. умение добиться преимущества, поставить соперника в невыгодное положение ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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