out-Byzantine

英語

詞源

out- +‎ Byzantine

動詞

out-Byzantine (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 out-Byzantines，現在分詞 out-Byzantining，一般過去時及過去分詞 out-Byzantined)

1. (及物) 比……更精明
   • 2011, Theodore Vestal, The Lion of Judah in the New World, page 127:

     Although Ambassador Korry had admonished the president that “trying to out-Byzantine” the emperor “would be futile and counterproductive” and that Kennedy therefore should “spell out details of the U.S. program and justification from the start,” Washington tried to outsmart HIM […]