one-upmanship
способность сохранять преимущество
Пример использования идиомы one-upmanship:
Arnold's one-upmanship and his wish to be better than his colleagues sometimes annoys me.
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Другие идиомы:
- all rolled up in one
- one in a thousand
- one's days are numbered
- all-in-one
- one man's meat is another man's poison
- one little bit
- one by one
- one in a million
- one of these days
- on one's feet
- on one's heels
- one-armed bandit
- as busy as a one-armed paperhanger
- one's lucky number comes up
- one's bark is worse than one's bite