one jump ahead

Idioms

Anticipating and prepared for what will happen, as in We have to keep one jump ahead of the opposition, or A clever embezzler, Charles was just one jump ahead of the police. [First half of 1900s] Also see get the jump on.

Example Sentences

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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

Since then, whenever the Government has jumped on steel price policies, the industry has been one jump ahead.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cat was always one jump ahead of him, and after he retreated, it hopped up on the sheriff's window and meowed.

From Time Magazine Archive

P�rez Jim�nez made one bad slip on the January day he fled Venezuela one jump ahead of the howling mobs.

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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