one-upmanship
способность сохранять преимущество
Arnold's one-upmanship and his wish to be better than his colleagues sometimes annoys me.
Другие идиомы:
- on one's best behavior
- hundred and one
- one jump/step ahead of (someone or something)
- on one's mind
- of one mind
- on one's feet
- not one iota
- out of the corner of one's eye
- one (for someone)
- out of one's hair
- one little bit
- one man's meat is another man's poison
- as one
- one's frame of mind
- off one's high horse