tkacka15
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"McDonnell, making his first appearance on the frontbench after 20 years in parliament, startled MPs by admitting he was embarrassed that he had reversed his two-week-old plan to tell Labour MPs to vote for Osborne’s charter for budget responsibility. He confessed: “I was trying to out-Osborne Osborne.”" [From The Guardian.]
Is "out-Osborne" a verb in “I was trying to out-Osborne Osborne”? What does it exactly mean in such a context?
Thank you.
Is "out-Osborne" a verb in “I was trying to out-Osborne Osborne”? What does it exactly mean in such a context?
Thank you.