One-upmanship

One-upmanship is the art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor.

Exactly when the term originated is unknown; several examples are known from the early 1900s. It was used in the title of a book by Stephen Potter, published in 1952 as a follow-up to The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (or the Art of Winning Games without Actually Cheating) (1947), which also contained the term, and Lifemanship titles in his series of tongue-in-cheek self-help books, and film and television derivatives, that teach various ploys to achieve this. This satire of self-help style guides manipulates traditional British conventions for the gamester, all life being a game, who understands that if you're not one-up, you're one-down. Potter's unprincipled principles apply to almost any possession, experience or situation, deriving maximum undeserved rewards and discomforting the opposition. The 1960 film School for Scoundrels and the 2006 film School For Scoundrels were satiric portrayals of how to use Potter's ideas.

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释义	oneupmanship 英汉-汉英词典单利现象词组 \| 习惯用语您要查找的是不是： horsemanship n. 骑术;马术 gamesmanship n. 竞赛时使用的虽不光明但不犯规的方法 one-upmanship n. 胜人一筹；能胜人一筹的办法网络短语: oneupmanship 正在翻译 one-upmanship duel 互相攀比决斗原声例句经济学人-科技 THE space race between America and the Soviet Union was as much about ideological one-upmanship as extraterrestrial exploration. 美国和苏联的空间竞争是关于外星探索上谁高人一等的问题。《卫报》阅读精选 She retained just a vestige of the journalist's one-upmanship. 她只保留了记者独断专行的痕迹。世界奇趣图谱 It was rumored though that Octavian had only done this to embarrass Antony, using it as a sign of one-upmanship. 有传言说，屋大维这样做只是为了让安东尼难堪，以此作为自己胜人一筹的标志。 TED-Ed（视频版） But their egotistical one-upmanship reminds us that, in spite of its ideals, science is a personal enterprise conducted by individual— and at times deeply flawed— human beings. 但他们自负的高人一等提醒我们，尽管有其理想，科学是一项个人事业，由个体——有时是有严重缺陷的——人类进行。英语百科 One-upmanship One-upmanship is the art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor. Exactly when the term originated is unknown; several examples are known from the early 1900s. It was used in the title of a book by Stephen Potter, published in 1952 as a follow-up to The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (or the Art of Winning Games without Actually Cheating) (1947), which also contained the term, and Lifemanship titles in his series of tongue-in-cheek self-help books, and film and television derivatives, that teach various ploys to achieve this. This satire of self-help style guides manipulates traditional British conventions for the gamester, all life being a game, who understands that if you're not one-up, you're one-down. Potter's unprincipled principles apply to almost any possession, experience or situation, deriving maximum undeserved rewards and discomforting the opposition. The 1960 film School for Scoundrels and the 2006 film School For Scoundrels were satiric portrayals of how to use Potter's ideas.
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One-upmanship