one jump ahead
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An ex-CIA agent and his lover write a book about the agency, one jump ahead of agents sent to stop them.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2020
It closed down its offices in Buffalo and Manhattan, hustled out chairs and desks in Manhattan just one jump ahead of a U.S. marshal, acting for Kaiser-Frazer Corp.
From Time Magazine Archive
As might be guessed, British Author Pamela Frankau, 50, belongs to the Eliza-crossing-the-ice school of fiction: the narrative floe consists in keeping the characters' daydream life one jump ahead of baying reality.
From Time Magazine Archive
His salary was now up to $6,000 a picture, but "we were always just one jump ahead of the bills," he says.
From Time Magazine Archive
Daisy always seemed to be about one jump ahead of me.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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