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one-upmanship
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one-upmanship
if something someone does is one-upmanship, they are trying to make other people admire them by doing it in a better or more clever way than someone else There is a great deal of one-upmanship among children anxious to wear the most fashionable clothes.


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The seven probable runners are Back In Front (Paddy Flood)' Beef Or Salmon (Timmy Murphy)' Forget The Past (Barry Geraghty)' Hi Cloy (Andrew McNamara)' Native Upmanship (David Casey)' War Of Attrition (Conor O'Dwyer)' Watson Lake (Paul Carberry).
When Haynes let them go a second time, Native Upmanship was left in arrears.
NATIVE UPMANSHIP suffered a shock defeat at Naas when failing to catch front-running Copernicus.
 
 
 
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