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one jump ahead
Idioms and Phrases
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
Throughout his epic, scandal-ridden career, Donald Trump has compiled an astonishing record of impunity, constantly staying one jump ahead of prosecutors, plaintiffs and creditors.
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.
An ex-CIA agent and his lover write a book about the agency, one jump ahead of agents sent to stop them.
‘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.’
“One Jump Ahead†is slow and jerky, and begins with no fanfare.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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