steal a march on sb
If you steal a march on someone, you get an advantage over that person by acting before they do:
Our rival company managed to steal a march on us by bringing out their software ahead of ours.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Surpassing in quality or number
- beat
- catch
- catch up
- compare
- crown
- eclipse
- exceed
- go one better idiom
- leave sb standing idiom
- north
- outperform
- outran
- outrun
- outsell
- outshine
- outstrip
- tower above/over sth
- transcend
- upstage
- writ large idiom
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