ahead of the pack in English

[Show JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "ahead of the pack",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 2, Nigel Harris, “The UK's worst crisis since 1709”, in Rail, page 3",
          "text": "Some very significant but not very widely known news (even in the sector itself) is that rail is not only uniquely placed to benefit from this promised change of direction, there is already solid evidence to put the rail sector ahead of the pack as a potential investment priority.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Performing better than others."
      ],
      "id": "en-ahead_of_the_pack-en-prep_phrase-mgZXUzCc",
      "links": [
        [
          "Performing",
          "perform"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Performing better than others."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "ahead of the curve"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ahead of the pack"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "ahead of the pack",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ahead of the curve"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English prepositional phrases",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 2, Nigel Harris, “The UK's worst crisis since 1709”, in Rail, page 3",
          "text": "Some very significant but not very widely known news (even in the sector itself) is that rail is not only uniquely placed to benefit from this promised change of direction, there is already solid evidence to put the rail sector ahead of the pack as a potential investment priority.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Performing better than others."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Performing",
          "perform"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Performing better than others."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ahead of the pack"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"ahead of the pack" meaning in English

Prepositional phrase