"up one's game" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ups one's game",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upping one's game",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upped one's game",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upped one's game",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "up one's game (third-person singular simple present ups one's game, present participle upping one's game, simple past and past participle upped one's game)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "step up one's game"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, page 49",
          "text": "He wondered if any of the boys had a grandmother like his, a woman with knowledge and secrets and a gentle habit of helping you up your game.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 16, Daniel Puddicombe, “Treated DMUs become cleaner and greener”, in Rail, page 47",
          "text": "\"Rail has a good basis for promoting green travel options, but we can't rest on our laurels. We need to keep on moving forwards because other modes are upping their games as well,\" says Brennan-Brown.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of step up one's game"
      ],
      "id": "en-up_one's_game-en-verb-CC46I-Ia",
      "links": [
        [
          "step up one's game",
          "step up one's game#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "up one's game"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ups one's game",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upping one's game",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upped one's game",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upped one's game",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "up one's game (third-person singular simple present ups one's game, present participle upping one's game, simple past and past participle upped one's game)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "step up one's game"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, page 49",
          "text": "He wondered if any of the boys had a grandmother like his, a woman with knowledge and secrets and a gentle habit of helping you up your game.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 16, Daniel Puddicombe, “Treated DMUs become cleaner and greener”, in Rail, page 47",
          "text": "\"Rail has a good basis for promoting green travel options, but we can't rest on our laurels. We need to keep on moving forwards because other modes are upping their games as well,\" says Brennan-Brown.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of step up one's game"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "step up one's game",
          "step up one's game#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "up one's game"
}