go one better
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Fellow Wimbledon regular Kev Cooper, from Cotgrave in Nottinghamshire, can go one better.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
"You just have to go one better, don't you? We've done all three, we're just topping up each time," he said.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
Austria's Johannes Aigner will be out to retain his title in the visually impaired event but Italian Giacomo Bertagnolli is the world champion and aiming to go one better than Beijing, where he won silver.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
Sadowski-Synnott, who won big air bronze in Pyeongchang in 2018 and silver in Beijing, was looking to go one better at the Milan-Cortina Games.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
They had a profound admiration for John Bull's capacity for roguery, and an equally profound belief in their own ability to go one better.
From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Alfred Ollivant
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