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 coat-tails
- one man's meat is another man's poison
- one's tail between one's legs
- one little bit
- one in a hundred
- one (for someone)
- off the top of one's head
- out of one's league
- out of one's hair
- on the one hand
- one's bark is worse than one's bite
- one at a time
- number one
- one and all
- one's frame of mind