oneupmanship

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oneupmanship

Facetious, the art or technique of keeping another person slightly off balance in order to gain an advantage.
See also: Games
the art or process of gaining the advantage in situations by means of crafty or ingenious ploys.
See also: Cunning
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For all the good-natured oneupmanship, Moeen is forced to admit one player has the others beaten when it comes to pure distance.
When not competing to see who took the hardest drugs the contenders for the Tory crown are engaged in a far more dangerous form of oneupmanship.It is inevitable that any race which requires winning the support of 300 or so Conservative MPs and 120,000 party members is going to see the candidates pander to the base.
Ambition does not have to equal competitive oneupmanship.
I SEE the orange despot is meeting the North Korean despot in Vietnam for further talks on oneupmanship. I suppose better late than never for the Vietnam call-up.
Belittling and oneupmanship, impulsive decisions taken without consultation and a White House seemingly in constant chaos are fuelling concern among America's allies about a mercurial president operating largely alone.
They could also be sacked on the spot, Mr Bird telling the court "the office was run on oneupmanship and fear", with Maynard being the enforcer.
One of the daughters is, too, but she has left and her attempts at oneupmanship don't get far on WhatsApp halfway up a mountain in India.
As deadly as our elections can get, the more-fun-in-the-Philippines branding applies to the carnival atmosphere, the vaudeville trimmings, the show-what-you've-got oneupmanship, maybe even a Halloween-like creepiness when politically motivated killings cast a long shadow on democracy's virtues.
The goggle-eyed oneupmanship of quiz show Telly Addicts was also an amiable way to pass those long autumn evenings.
There is nothing in the Korea deal beyond the oneupmanship Trump has been playing against president Barack Obama ever since he followed him into the White House.
However, the trip takes a turn for the worse when Tom discovers that his childhood rival is staying at the same location with his own clan, leading them to rekindle their childish games of oneupmanship (2005) **
To restore peace in Darjeeling, there is a need for close Centre-state collaboration, which calls for putting aside the present petty games of oneupmanship where the BJP will like to undermine Mamata's influence and the latter will like to keep the "communal" Hindi-speakers at arm's length.
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