come out ahead

Idioms and Phrases

Succeed, make a profit. For example, By the end of the year we expect to come out ahead . Also see ahead of the game .

Example Sentences

Sometimes, jobs and paychecks come out ahead of self-actualization.

From The Daily Beast

The point is not to see some of the investors come out ahead (with your savings and my retirement money in jeopardy).

From The Daily Beast

California would always come out ahead, he said, because it represented “ground zero for creative destruction.”

From The Daily Beast

Yet some sellers who bought during the bubble years have still come out ahead.

From The Daily Beast

Instead, renegade Newt threw haymakers at also-rans like Michele Bachmann, but was still smart and agile enough to come out ahead.

From The Daily Beast

They invariably keep up, and oftener come out ahead than they lag behind.

From Project Gutenberg

For some time it seemed a serious question as to who would come out ahead.

From Project Gutenberg

It seemed from the amount of tracks that they had fought a duel and the crow had come out ahead, for he was still alive.

From Project Gutenberg

I was betting with myself which of you two would come out ahead in the argument and gain his point over the other.

From Project Gutenberg

I heard some of the girls at Hope say that they were sure Roxley would come out ahead.

From Project Gutenberg