Step up Your Game.
English
idiom
Improve your performance or skills in order to achieve better results.
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Improve your performance or skills in order to achieve better results.
Trusted by1.5M+English learners & teachers worldwide
To improve your performance or effort to a higher level, especially because the current standard is not good enough.
When you step up your game, you raise the quality of what you are doing in response to greater demands or competition.
It is used as a motivating challenge to do better.
"Raise the Bar"
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Setting a higher standard of performance or expectation for everyone going forward
"Up Your Ante"
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Increasing what you are putting in — your effort, investment, or commitment — in a competitive situation
"Step up Your Game"
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Improving your performance to meet higher demands or competition
The competition has improved significantly — our current approach won't cut it anymore.
Understood — I'll review what they're doing and we'll step up our game this quarter.
I keep losing bids to the same competitor.
Look at what they're doing differently and step up your game — your pricing or your pitch.
What made you completely change your approach in the second half of the year?
I realized I had to step up my game — the bar had moved and I hadn't moved with it.
