ahead of your time

Meaning

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   having advanced or new ideas that other people use or copy later

   He's way ahead of his time.

   William always said he was, oh, ahead of his time

In the movies · 3

• William always said he was, oh, ahead of his timeAtlas Shrugged: Part I2011
• Or the Exer-Mower that I invented? Simply ahead of their time.Transformers: Age of Extinction2014
• He's way ahead of his time.Wayne's World1992

Learn it in full scenes

• Atlas Shrugged: Part I2011
  • Dagny Defies James Over Rearden Metal
  • Dagny and Rearden's Metal Deal
  • Rearden Gives Lillian a Metal Gift

From the same entry

• about time
• against time
• ahead of time
• all the time
• at all times
• at the best of times
• at the same time
• at a time
• at my, your, his, time of life
• at times
• before my, your, his, time
• behind the times

More idioms

• be staring in the face
• be written all over face
• come along for the ride
• do your own thing
• drink like a fish
• err on the side of
• fly in the face of
• get under skin
• have eyes in the back of your head
• have your feet on the ground
• have your work cut out
• i beg to differ