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get one over on

get/put one over on somebody

  (informal)
to prove that you are better or more clever than someone else by winning an argument or defeating them He's always trying to get one over on the other members of the sales team.
See also: get, on, one

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Ham[hæm]
PetraPET-rah (Finnish), PET-rə (English)German, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Hungarian, Swedish, Finnish, English
Ime (2)-Frisian
Lucineh-Armenian
GÉRaudzhe-ROFrench
EmilE-mil (Swedish), E-meel (German, Polish), e-MEEL (English)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian,
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