| 单词 | i'll see your —— and raise you |
| 释义 | > as lemmasI'll see your —— and raise you —— b. transitive. In extended use: to equal or rival (a person or thing); to offer or cite something as good or impressive as (something offered or cited by another person). In early use usually in collocation with to go (one, etc.) better (cf. go v. 36a); now esp. in I'll see your —— and raise you —— and variants (cf. note at sense 28a). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > equal, match, or rival matchc1400 to hold, rarely have, tack with (to)1412 equalize15.. mate1509 touch1530 to hold (a person, etc.) tack (to tack)1555 equal1590 egall1591 countermatch1600 to weigh with (also even with)1600 emulate1602 side1605 compeer1608 pair1619 mount1628 amate1642 to hold weight witha1643 to be (also prove oneself) a match for1712 peel1726 to hold the sticks toa1817 to bear or stand comparison with1845 see1861 tie1888 1861 Prairie Farmer 7 Feb. 86/3 John Randolph..once said he would go a mile to kick a sheep,—but I would ‘see his mile’ and ‘go one better’ to kick a dog. 1890 Spectator 20 Sept. He ‘saw’ the enemy's veteran, in fact, and went 599 better. 1903 ‘B. L. Standish’ Frank Merriwell's Daring x. 112 The hornets..saw Reggy—and went him several better. 1973 Idaho State Jrnl. 28 Dec. c7 I'll see your crisis and raise you a catastrophe! 2014 Sun (Nexis) 31 Aug. 52 It was an ‘I'll see your superyacht and raise you a colour co-ordinated helicopter’ type of one-upmanship. < as lemmas |
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