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词组 one-upmanship
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Idiom
one-upmanship
if something someone does is one-upmanship, they are trying to make other people admire them by doing it in a better or more clever way than someone else.
There is a great deal of one-upmanship among children anxious to wear the most fashionable clothes.
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one-up(s)manship

The act of trying to outdo or be more successful, admirable, or respected than someone else. If the members of our Congress were less involved with political one-upsmanship, we could have passed several bills by now that could be stimulating the economy. I've never seen someone more devoted to one-upmanship than Tim. Everywhere you've been, he's been somewhere more excited.
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