| 单词 | to go one better |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go one better (a) to go one better: to (narrowly) outdo someone or surpass a previous effort or achievement. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (intransitive)] pass?a1425 precel?a1425 superexcelc1429 surmount1447 excela1535 transcend1635 prepoll1657 outgrabe1855 to go one better1856 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery, superiority, or advantage [verb (intransitive)] risec1175 to have the higher handa1225 to have the besta1393 bettera1400 vaila1400 to win or achieve a checka1400 surmount1400 prevaila1425 to have (also get) the better handa1470 to go away with it1489 to have the besta1500 to have (also get, etc.) the better (or worse) end of the staff1542 to have ita1616 to have (also get) the laugh on one's side1672 top1718 beat1744 to get (also have) the right end of the stick1817 to have the best of1846 to go one better1856 1856 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 22 Mar. 231/3 Some of our Wall Street magnates would doubtless please the young gentleman if they would go ‘one better’ in this line. 1878 Scribner's Monthly 15 660/2 I'll do better than the church. I'll see 'em that and go one better. 1886 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Right Hon'ble I. vii. 142 Our fellows wanted to be popular. These fellows..want to go one better. 1892 Spectator 7 May 646/1 To use a slang phrase borrowed from the card-table, she has ‘seen Mr. D. and gone one better’. 1928 D. H. Lawrence in E. Rickword Scrutinies v. 67 They worship their own class, but they pretend to go one better and sneer at it. 1973 New Scientist 20 Sept. 677/1 Mr. Gaye has gone one better than his competitors. 2007 B. Warner Sit down & shut up xxi. 209 When just having short hair didn't seem radical enough, the hardcore punks went one better and shaved it all off. to go (a person) one better (b) to go (a person) one better: to (narrowly) outdo or surpass (a person). ΚΠ 1858 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 17 Nov. The owner of the Humming Bird will go them one better. 1874 Congress. Rec. 17 Feb. 1556/1 The Senator from North Carolina..proposes an increase of 46 millions of banking circulation. The Senator from Pennsylvania..goes him better, and proposes an unlimited increase. 1953 W. Stevens Let. 21 Dec. (1967) 805 The weather was constantly going me one better. 1960 W. H. Whyte Organization Man 34 Some European critics of America have gone them one better. 2010 New Yorker 26 July 61/3 St. Francis, unburdened by the weight of being the Messiah, went Jesus one better and extended his gospel to all creation. < as lemmas |
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