Later in the debate, when John Edwards gave perhaps the most eloquent answer of all on a question about poverty, Clinton tried to one-up everyone by saying "when I graduated from law school, I didn't go to work for a law firm.
There is the purring mania of her Penelope, who compulsively one-ups everyone in the room; the shimmering, put-on enthusiasm of a TV personality giving away millions of dollars for a home redo; the implacable complacency of the financial adviser Suze Orman, forefingers raised, dropping hints of her own wealth while giving advice to the hard-pressed.
And many of her characters are, by their nature, annoying, like Penelope, a hair-twirling nudge who one-ups everyone with a trailing voice and a steady patter of increasingly surreal tall tales.
But Nike, looking to pretty much one-up everyone in the business, is attempting to patent an automatic lacing system.
These kinds of people often "one-up" everyone around them, or always swing conversation back to something about them.
No one's riled up; everyone's calm and cool with only two hours to go before the show.
We had to stick him in a taxi with one hand pointing up – everyone who passed him looked heavenwards.
Teenagers see themselves and one another as grown up; everyone else is either a child or very, very old.
didn't show up one night, so I showed up — everyone knew I collected records," Belinda said.
That is, one not "dead" or "sleeping," but one beating everyone up and stealing lunch money just for phone virile!
JV And finally this is one for everyone who's picked up on that exact thing.
