Usually means: Surpass or improve upon something.
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  1. go one better: Merriam-Webster
  2. go one better: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. go one better: Collins English Dictionary
  4. go one better: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. go one better: Wiktionary
  6. go (someone) one better, go one better: Dictionary.com
  7. go one better: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. go one better: Legal dictionary

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  1. go one better: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (go one better)

▸ verb:  To take a bet and add another to it.
▸ verb:  To outdo somebody; to do something that surpasses what came before.

Similar:
bet up, outbet, up the ante, outgamble, sweeten the pot, one up, get one up on, double up, raise, redouble, more...

Opposite:
fall short, underperform, lag behind

Types:
outdo, surpass, exceed, top, beat, outshine, more...

Phrases:
go one better than, more...

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Similar:
bet up, outbet, up the ante, outgamble, sweeten the pot, one up, get one up on, double up, raise, redouble, more...

Opposite:
fall short, underperform, lag behind

Types:
outdo, surpass, exceed, top, beat, outshine, more...

Phrases:
go one better than, more...



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