one upsmanship

"It may not be a gas war, but it certainly is one upsmanship, or maybe in this case, one downsmanship."

"It may not be a gas war, but it certainly is one upsmanship, or maybe in this case, one downsmanship."

I spent my teens during an era of mohawks and safety pins, and my youth in San Francisco in the nineties, a place and time in which body modification was a perpetual game of one upsmanship.

On Tuesday, Mexican authorities announced the capture of one of those who they said had been active in this game of one upsmanship, Teodoro Eduardo Garcia Simental, described as a ruthless drug lord based just south of the American border in Tijuana.