Antonyms for getting ahead
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : get |
| Phonetic Transcription : gɛt |
Definition of getting ahead
Origin :- early 14c., "offspring," from get (v.). Meaning "what is got, booty" is from 14c.
- verb excel, succeed
- Hull saw that some new means of getting ahead must be devised.
- Extract from : « The Naval History of the United States » by Willis J. Abbot.
- We are getting ahead of our narrative, though—days ahead of it.
- Extract from : « From Place to Place » by Irvin S. Cobb
- And between Russ and Ruth there was—but there, I am getting ahead of my story.
- Extract from : « The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound » by Laura Lee Hope
- Can it be some scientist I know nothing of is getting ahead of her?
- Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore
- He was getting ahead, not with phenomenal rapidity, but satisfactorily.
- Extract from : « The Fighting Shepherdess » by Caroline Lockhart
- All they did care for was to keep one another from getting ahead.
- Extract from : « The Chauffeur and the Chaperon » by C. N. Williamson
- School was looked upon as part of the business of getting ahead.
- Extract from : « The Comings of Cousin Ann » by Emma Speed Sampson
- They were not getting ahead at all, and Mrs. Tweedie became annoyed.
- Extract from : « The Morning Glory Club » by George A. Kyle
- In my eagerness to reach my climax I am getting ahead of my story.
- Extract from : « Those Times And These » by Irvin S. Cobb
- They may try to pay us back for getting ahead of them as we did on several occasions.
- Extract from : « The Motor Boys Afloat » by Clarence Young
Synonyms for getting ahead
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