| 单词 | one-upmanship |
| 释义 | one-upmanship (wʌnʌpmənʃɪp ) uncountable noun 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. [disapproval] It was the expression of a man who'd won a trifling game of one-upmanship. ...political one-upmanship. Collocations: game of one-upmanship Competitiveness comes in a different guise: an awesomely sophisticated game of one-upmanship. Times, Sunday Times In a testy yet peculiarly funny game of one-upmanship two or three at a time periodically roll between an anchoring row of upstage seats. Times, Sunday Times Beneath the façade lies a game of one-upmanship. Times, Sunday Times But in our new age of austerity, the global game of one-upmanship has changed. Times, Sunday Times Inevitably, neighbours are in uproar at this game of one-upmanship, or should that be five-upmanship? Times, Sunday Times |
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