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I couldn’t stand the idea of letting him have one up on me, whether he knew about it or not.
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To have "one up" on someone means to have some sort of advantage over them. The speaker did not want to allow "him" to have such an advantage. g.
- To have "one up" on someone means to have some sort of advantage over them.
- The speaker did not want to allow "him" to have such an advantage.
- g.
- com/en/definition/one_up , though in cases like this it can be hard to know what to look up.
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To have "one up" on someone means to have some sort of advantage over them. The speaker did not want to allow "him" to have such an advantage.
See e.g. https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/one_up , though in cases like this it can be hard to know what to look up.
0You can't keep giving your threads the same, almost identical title.
The title for this should have been I can't understand "letting him have one up on me", or simply "letting him have one up on me".
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