go one better
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]go one better (third-person singular simple present goes one better, present participle going one better, simple past went one better, past participle gone one better)
- To take a bet and add another to it.
- To outdo somebody; to do something that surpasses what came before.
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[edit]References
[edit]- Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908).