avere la meglio

== Italian == === Etymology === Literally, “to have the best”. === Verb === avére la meglio (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) hò la meglio, first-person singular past historic èbbi la meglio or ébbi la meglio, past participle avùto la meglio, first-person singular future avrò la meglio, first-person singular subjunctive àbbia la meglio, second-person singular imperative àbbi la meglio, auxiliary avére) to prevail (intransitive) to get the best of [with a or su ‘someone/something’]