to use advantages that you already have, such as your skills, experience, or money, and increase their value by using all your opportunities well parlay sth into sth (paroli (noun), from , from paro , from par; PAR)
[ 'pär-"lA, -lE ] (transitive verb.) 1828. French paroli, noun, parlay, from Italian dialect, plural of parolo, perhaps from paro equal, from Latin par.