phrase
Level Up
To gain a discrete jump in skill, status, or capability.
Origin
From role-playing games: characters accumulate experience points and, at thresholds, gain a 'level', adding stats and abilities. Dungeons & Dragons (1974) formalized the system; computer RPGs propagated it.
Modern usage
Standard in self-improvement, fitness, and career writing. 'Level up your rรฉsumรฉ', 'level up your relationship'. Slightly cringe in business decks; perfectly fine in conversation.
Tags
progress
growth
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The hardest enemy at the end of the game โ and, by metaphor, the ultimate adversary.
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Speedrun
To complete something as quickly as possible โ usually with optimized, often unintended, tactics.