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get the advantage of
Idioms and Phrases
Also, get or have the advantage over . Be in a superior position to, as in He had the advantage over me, since I couldn't even remember his name, let alone his position . [Mid-1500s] Also see get the better of ; get the drop on .Example Sentences
But the Vietnamese passengers pay three or four times more money to the gangs handling the crossing routes, he told us, “so we get the advantage of being given a place more quickly”.
“It’s not easy to arrive so young at a club like Real Madrid, but you get the advantage of having a chance to play in many Champions League finals. I hope this is the first of many for me.”
"When you're seeded you get the advantage of missing out on those big six or seven teams," England boss Gareth Southgate said.
Dec. 19 — at Los Angeles Rams: The Seahawks get the advantage of the Rams playing on a short week — with Los Angeles playing at Arizona the previous Monday.
The downside is that borrowers won’t get the advantage of falling rates during that period.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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