Competitive Phrases

Phrases

• Answers on a postcard
• Bake off
• Beauty queen
• Blood in the water
• Competitive disadvantage
• Competitive edge
• Cut and thrust
• Cut throat competition
• Eye up the competition
• Face the competition
• Feeding frenzy
• Final cut
• First cut
• Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
• Head to head
• Highly commended
• Honourable mention
• If you ain't first, you're last
• Keep up with the Joneses
• Knock on the door
• Miss the cut
• Passive aggressive
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Rat race
• Spot the ball
• Stiff competition
• Up for grabs
• Us versus them (denoting the emnity between two opposing groups)