one-up (someone)



Like this video? Subscribe to our free daily email and get a new idiom video every day!

one-up (someone)

To make a point of outdoing, outperforming, outclassing, etc., someone. I hate telling stories around Jack because he always tries to one-up you with some fabulous anecdote of his own.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Almira (2)-Bosnian
Seraphinus-Late Roman
ZygfrydZIK-fritPolish
Rudolph['ru:dɔlf]
Iepthae-Biblical Latin
Morgaine-Arthurian Romance