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I know this phrase probably only exists in English, but how would you say “one-up”?
When you one-up a person, it’s like they say something sad or funny or whatever and you have to say something even sadder or funnier or better than what they said. Like if someone says “my foot hurts” and you say “well that’s nothing, my whole leg hurts”, that’s one-upping.
How would you describe that in Spanish?
I know this phrase probably only exists in English, but how would you say “one-up”?
When you one-up a person, it’s like they say something sad or funny or whatever and you have to say something even sadder or funnier or better than what they said. Like if someone says “my foot hurts” and you say “well that’s nothing, my whole leg hurts”, that’s one-upping.
How would you describe that in Spanish?
When you one-up a person, it’s like they say something sad or funny or whatever and you have to say something even sadder or funnier or better than what they said. Like if someone says “my foot hurts” and you say “well that’s nothing, my whole leg hurts”, that’s one-upping.
How would you describe that in Spanish?
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Depending on the situation you could use superar, ganar, hacerlo mejor. Like in your example, if someone said "he totally one-upped you" it could translate to "él te ganó/superó".
Other examples:
He's always trying to one-up me : Siempre está tratando de superarme
If we want to win the cup, we have to one-up the other team : Si queremos ganar la copa, tenemos que hacerlo mejor que el otro equipo.
Hope this helps ^ ^
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Yo lo traduciría como: te la mató (he one-up you) o te la maté (I one-up you) aunque eso es más inforrmal, algo que usarías entre amigos, con quien te lleves bien acá, chido xD espero te sirva
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minimize the situation of other with personal experience
minimizar la situación del otro con experiencias personales
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