one-upmanship

Etymology
, probably modelled after.

Noun

 * 1) The art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor.
 * 2) A succession of instances of outdoing a competitor.
 * 3) * 1965,, “Foreword”, in M[axwell] G[ay] Marwick, Sorcery in Its Social Setting: A Study of the Northern Rhodesian Ceŵa, Manchester: Published by the at the University Press,  , page v:
 * I think all readers will be impressed by the manner in which Marwick places his own analysis in relation to previous studies both of sorcery and of conflict in general. His punctiliousness here contrasts sharply with the practice of some anthropologists who, in a contest of one-upmanship, score points either by ignoring earlier work or even by baldly asserting that it was all wrong.
 * 1) A succession of instances of outdoing a competitor.
 * 2) * 1965,, “Foreword”, in M[axwell] G[ay] Marwick, Sorcery in Its Social Setting: A Study of the Northern Rhodesian Ceŵa, Manchester: Published by the at the University Press,  , page v:
 * I think all readers will be impressed by the manner in which Marwick places his own analysis in relation to previous studies both of sorcery and of conflict in general. His punctiliousness here contrasts sharply with the practice of some anthropologists who, in a contest of one-upmanship, score points either by ignoring earlier work or even by baldly asserting that it was all wrong.

Translations

 * Czech: přečurávaní, snaha prosadit se na úkor ostatních
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Swedish: has to be explained: konsten att