out-Byzantine

English

Etymology

out- +‎ Byzantine

Verb

out-Byzantine (third-person singular simple present out-Byzantines, present participle out-Byzantining, simple past and past participle out-Byzantined)

(transitive) To appear to be a more subtle negotiator than; to outsmart.
- 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 […]

单词	out-Byzantine
释义	out-Byzantine English Etymology out- +‎ Byzantine Verb out-Byzantine (third-person singular simple present out-Byzantines, present participle out-Byzantining, simple past and past participle out-Byzantined) (transitive) To appear to be a more subtle negotiator than; to outsmart. 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 […]
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