ahead of the game

1. In a position of advantage, especially financially; succeeding or winning. For example, If we can sell 2,000 units of this product by next month, we'll be well ahead of the game. This idiom uses ahead of in the sense of “in advance of,” a usage dating from the mid-1700s, and transfers success in gambling (the game) to winning in other areas. Also see come out ahead.

Example Sentences

"But we were ahead of the game and lots of people, particularly at the bigger clubs, or even the press, were not too complimentary."

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Red Bull have tried to get ahead of the game.

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Tom Homan, the president’s so-called border czar, told Fox News on Saturday evening that the administration was “already ahead of the game” in its planning for a National Guard deployment.

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“We’re already ahead of the game. We were already mobilizing,” he added.

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“He was so far ahead of the game in so many ways, not only as a great guitar player, but also how he figured out ways to record music live,” he said.

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