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Mike wote:
> >is that it's the modern form of one-upsmanship.
> Surely this should be "One-upspersonship" ;)
>Or even (since a "son" is a male child) "One-upsperchildship?" ;{>}
>Hold on, hold on. Don't people usually refer to ships as female (she sank,
>she sailed to Bermuda etc)? Therefore, I suggest it should be
>"One-upsperchildvessel". What do you think?
I like it, I like it. Besides being so contorted that it's lost all meaning
(and therefore, we could say, it's a better candidate for a *word* -- which
is, after all, in essence symbolic -- than the original expression) it has a
nice poetic ring to it.
