one-up (someone)

one-up (someone)

To make a point of outdoing, outperforming, outclassing, etc., someone. I hate telling stories around Jack because he always tries to one-up you with some fabulous anecdote of his own.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • reassign
  • reassign to
  • reassign to (something)
  • (Someone or something) called, they want their (something) back!
  • ahead of the pack
  • streets ahead
  • a bad apple spoils the (whole) barrel
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bunch
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bushel
  • rotten apple spoils the barrel