one jump ahead

Anticipating and prepared for what will happen, as in We have to keep one jump ahead of the opposition, or A clever embezzler, Charles was just one jump ahead of the police. [First half of 1900s] Also see get the jump on.

Words nearby one jump ahead

one for the books, one for the road, one good turn deserves another, one if by land, and two if by sea, one in a million, one jump ahead, one man's meat is another man's poison, one of a kind, one of these days, one of those days, one old cat