get one up on en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To outdo.
So why not rob these red cloaks? Serves em right for letting their guard down. Isn’t that the unwritten law of the land? If someone gets one up on you, you deserve it for letting them?
2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| got one up on | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| got one up on | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| gets one up on | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| getting one up on | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| gotten one up on | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |