up/raise the ante

FORCE somebody TO DO somethingto increase your demands or try to get more things from a situation, even though this involves more risks 提高要求，增加筹码

They’ve upped the ante by making a $120 million bid to buy the company.

他们增加筹码，出价1.2亿美元收购该公司。

Examples from the Corpus

up/raise the ante• The owners are constantly carping about runaway salaries, then fall over themselves to jump the gun and up the ante.• What they are now doing is compromising, in this half-baked manner, by raising the ante to 70.• Logan said, referring to the Colorado Avalanche star whose $ 21-million contract upped the ante for Kariya.• Creating an economic asset in the form of a parental dividend would obviously up the ante in these kinds of contentious issues.• Sometimes the parents upped the ante.• Sanctions upped the ante considerably in the Middle East crisis.• Looking to the future, however, the Forest Service decided to up the ante next time around.• The group mind plays Pong so well that Carpenter decides to up the ante.• Palmer's contribution was to up the ante.

→ up/raise the ante at ante1(1)

单词	up/raise the ante
释义	up/raise the ante up/raise the ante FORCE somebody TO DO somethingto increase your demands or try to get more things from a situation, even though this involves more risks 提高要求，增加筹码 They’ve upped the ante by making a $120 million bid to buy the company. 他们增加筹码，出价1.2亿美元收购该公司。 Examples from the Corpus up/raise the ante• The owners are constantly carping about runaway salaries, then fall over themselves to jump the gun and up the ante.• What they are now doing is compromising, in this half-baked manner, by raising the ante to 70.• Logan said, referring to the Colorado Avalanche star whose $ 21-million contract upped the ante for Kariya.• Creating an economic asset in the form of a parental dividend would obviously up the ante in these kinds of contentious issues.• Sometimes the parents upped the ante.• Sanctions upped the ante considerably in the Middle East crisis.• Looking to the future, however, the Forest Service decided to up the ante next time around.• The group mind plays Pong so well that Carpenter decides to up the ante.• Palmer's contribution was to up the ante. → up/raise the ante at ante1(1)
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