a step ahead
Idiomwhen you are one step ahead of sb / sth, you manage to avoid them or to achieve sth more quickly than they do
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when you are one step ahead of sb / sth, you manage to avoid them or to achieve sth more quickly than they do
And he always seems to be a step ahead of us.
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I'm just one step ahead of the Law myself.
Barry Lyndon (1975)32:31
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