one jump ahead

Idioms  

1. 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.

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Example Sentences

Along the way — one jump ahead of Billie and her accompanying gun-thugettes until the very end — Cole and Mila fall in with the Sisters of All Sorrows, a bunch of wannabe nuns who feel sure that if they apologize enough, the men will come back.

From New York Times

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

‘Half the folks in that house don’t pay the rent, and it a big expense to keep everthing up. I tell you the truth—the Kellys is just barely keeping one jump ahead of the sheriff. They having a mighty hard time.’

From Literature

Daniel Smith “One Jump Ahead” offers early hints of everything that will go wrong with Ritchie’s Aladdin — mainly, that the film’s musical numbers fall somewhere between a very impressive Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade performance and one of ABC’s lesser Wonderful World of Disney made-for-TV movie musicals.

From The Verge

“One Jump Ahead” is slow and jerky, and begins with no fanfare.

From The Verge