jockey for position

争夺位置争夺地位争锋相对竞逐

jockey for position 的定义

  1. Maneuver or manipulate for one's own benefit, as in The singers are always jockeying for position on stage. This expression, dating from about 1900, originally meant maneuvering a race horse into a better position for winning. It was transferred to other kinds of manipulation in the mid-1900s.

jockey for position 近义词

jockey for position

等同于 rival

jockey for position

等同于 scramble

jockey for position

等同于 vie

jockey for position

等同于 compete

jockey for position

等同于 contend

jockey for position

等同于 contest

更多jockey for position例句

  1. Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.
  2. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  3. You have to acknowledge your age and position in life, for me quite a lot of those emotionally fueled songs were hormone songs.
  4. If the ball goes off the screen, it teleports back to the starting position.
  5. In a 2009 interview, Church apostle Dallin H. Oaks held that the Church “does not have a position” on that point.
  6. In this position, the line of cavalry formed the chord of the arc described by the river, and occupied by us.
  7. Polavieja, as everybody knew, was the chosen executive of the friars, whose only care was to secure their own position.
  8. Cousin George's position is such a happy one, that conversation is to him a thing superfluous.
  9. It is only necessary to have a zinc, or a galvanized tray on which to stand the glass in an inverted position.
  10. The case may be kept in a light position, and when once under way it will rarely need any additional water.