improve on

[improve on] or [improve upon] {v.}

To make or get one that is better than (another).

* /Dick made good marks the first year, but he thought he could improve on them./

* /Charles built a new model racer for the derby race, because he knew he could improve upon his old one./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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