up the ante
If you up theante, youincreaseyourdemandsor therisksin asituationinordertoachieveabetterresult:
增加赌注；提高要求；提高风险Thegovernmenthasuppedtheantebyrefusingtonegotiateuntil aceasefirehas beenagreed.政府增加了砝码，在达成停火协议之前拒绝谈判。
Taking risks
- adventurer
- all in
- be skating on thin iceidiom
- bet the farm/ranchidiom
- broke
- dare
- expose
- hazard
- high wire
- high-stakes
- imperil
- jeopardize
- lay
- neck
- re-expose
- risk
- run the risk of doingsomethingidiom
- sail close to the windidiom
- skate
- stickyourneck outidiom
up the ante| American Dictionary
up the ante
toincreaseyourrisksordemandsinorderto get agreateradvantage:
Thegovernoruppedthe ante in herwarof words with themayor, bycallinghim "dangerous" for thecity.
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Thus, negotiating governments may be obliged touptheanteby offering additional incentives, perhaps relating to political viability, to the opposition groups.
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They will always "uptheante" on it.
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If it works already, whyuptheanteand raise the nuclear power?
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We do not need touptheanteand have a problematic debate that would make things difficult.
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But because we call most subjects important, it is important, too, touptheantesometimes and call some of them crucial.
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Its purpose would be touptheanteand thus force the first union to raise its sights even higher.
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It acknowledges that teaching is a vocation and that, unless rewards are adequate in the market place, employers willuptheanteby offering higher salaries elsewhere.
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That is why we need touptheantetowards a holistic approach and the directive we are awaiting is very important within this framework, as has rightly been said.
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He later decided touptheanteand make it an official release.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We're looking touptheanteand top ourselves.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Because most of these stories focused on a character proving his innocence, authorsuptheanteby making him an amnesiac, unable to prove his innocence even to himself.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After numerous lunchroom debates on which great historical baseball teams would win if they could play each other, a few guys decided touptheante.
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