The word 'upstage' is both correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective describing someone or something that deliberately attracts attention in an inappropriate or unwelcome way. For example, "The guests were becoming uncomfortable with the host's upstage behavior at the party."
Emailgate is going to be a massive gag topic for Amy and Tina, and I suspect that the tension and hilarity surrounding the inevitable jokes about it might even slightly upstage the main event.
And two of the men competing hardest to offer a fresh alternative are from his own Gaullist political family: Mr de Villepin and Nicolas Sarkozy, an ambitious interior minister, and head of the ruling UMP party.Since politicians returned from their summer break, the pair have been competing to upstage one another.
They thought they had a promise from Labour not to try to upstage their conference this year.
YURI MILNER'S quest to upstage Alfred Nobel continues.
Japan hosts the Asahi and Kyoto prizes, for instance, which honour outstanding contributions in any area of science, alongside prizes for the arts.Some of the newest prizes on the block come from Yuri Milner, a Russian billionaire, who has attempted to upstage the Nobels by offering $3m to each winner, nearly three times what the Nobel Foundation pays.
Russia's president hoped at one point to nip up to Riga to upstage the NATO summit and mark the birthday of his French counterpart and friend, Jacques Chirac but this plan fizzled out.That Mr Putin should be so anxious to strengthen Russia's weakening ties with its "near abroad", and with his few remaining Western allies, is understandable.
But increasingly international and transnational political issues will tend to upstage them.So?The trends that I have described above are not forecasts (for which I have little use and scant respect); they are, if you will, conclusions.
Apple may well upstage all of them by announcing its own tablet-like device in January.Over 90% of existing e-readers use a display technology called E Ink, made by a firm of the same name that was spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997.
SBY seems to have resurrected the issue to upstage his subordinate.
Israel's decision to end its occupation of southern Lebanon last month removed the best justification for their presence.Lebanon's squabbling politicians used to try to upstage one another by currying favour with Mr Assad senior; he, in turn, preserved a balance of power between them by constantly changing his favourites.
Rather than trying to upstage Microsoft, HP is simply responding to its corporate customers, whose technology bosses have been asking to try out Linux on the desktops of a few dozen employees before committing to any big deployment.
