Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
raise his/her/their game
English answer:
rise to the challenge and surpass himself
English term
Morocco
raise his/her/their game
(macmillan dictionary)
Oct 13, 2017 11:49: Sheila Wilson changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Oct 18, 2017 17:14: Yvonne Gallagher changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/2361958">mohamed015's</a> old entry - "raise his/her/their game"" to ""rise to the challenge and surpass it""
Non-PRO (3): Mark Nathan, Yvonne Gallagher, Sheila Wilson
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Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: US, Canadian, Irish, UK) 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
rise to the challenge and surpass it
raise the bar
improve his game
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Note added at 3 mins (2017-10-13 11:12:07 GMT)
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"a notch or two"...improve by 1 or 2 levels or performance points.
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as BDF mentions below it should be
the player rises to the challenge (when in difficulty) and surpasses himself by improving his performance by one or two levels
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or
upping his game
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katsy
: // actually I was thinking it was English to French and wondering why the question was asked.... lucky I refreshed the page!
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Jack Doughty
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B D Finch
: Though not with "surpass". By rising to a challenge they would surpass themselves, not the challenge.
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Thanks. Yep, well caught! Surpass himself
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writeaway
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Thanks:-)
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Rachel Fell
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Ashutosh Mitra
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jccantrell
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Spain
20 years producing 100% natural English
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: English, French to English
He's the type of player + their
I imagine you were asking how it could be made more 'politically correct', rather than askng for a rewrite.
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BTW, I intended to give a confidence level of 4, not 5. Nothing is easy on my phone.
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