"steal a march" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "steals a march",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stealing a march",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stole a march",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stolen a march",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "steal<,,stole,stolen> a march"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "get the drop on"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "head start"
    }
  ],
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          "parents": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1759 August 1, Horace Walpole, Letter to Sir Horace Mann",
          "text": "Fifty thousand men cannot easily steal a march over the sea.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1883, George MacDonald, chapter 67, in Donal Grant",
          "text": "He enjoyed the idea of stealing a march on society, and seeing the sons he had left at such a disadvantage behind him, ruffling it, in spite of absurd law, with the foolish best.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 25, David Smith, “Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "For Musk it looked like an easy win in his effort to make Twitter the public square, especially one that attracts rightwing blowhards and steal a march on Fox News.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To gain an advantage unobserved."
      ],
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          "advantage",
          "advantage"
        ],
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          "unobserved"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To gain an advantage unobserved."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They stole a march by taking non-merchandise inventory on January 2.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, Jack London, All Gold Canyon",
          "text": "In the morning he stole a march on the sun, for he had finished breakfast when its first rays caught him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To start early."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To start early."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
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    {
      "form": "steals a march",
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        "singular",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stealing a march",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stole a march",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stolen a march",
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        "participle",
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    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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    {
      "word": "get the drop on"
    },
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      "word": "head start"
    }
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        {
          "ref": "1759 August 1, Horace Walpole, Letter to Sir Horace Mann",
          "text": "Fifty thousand men cannot easily steal a march over the sea.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1883, George MacDonald, chapter 67, in Donal Grant",
          "text": "He enjoyed the idea of stealing a march on society, and seeing the sons he had left at such a disadvantage behind him, ruffling it, in spite of absurd law, with the foolish best.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 25, David Smith, “Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "For Musk it looked like an easy win in his effort to make Twitter the public square, especially one that attracts rightwing blowhards and steal a march on Fox News.",
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        }
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        "To gain an advantage unobserved."
      ],
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        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To gain an advantage unobserved."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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    },
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        {
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          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, Jack London, All Gold Canyon",
          "text": "In the morning he stole a march on the sun, for he had finished breakfast when its first rays caught him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To start early."
      ],
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        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To start early."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
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