get the jump

Verb

Meaning

be there first

Source: WordNet

Hypernyms

beat shell crush vanquish trounce beat out

Examples

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. Carl Sandburg

[Kafka] taught me a lot about the normal and the abnormal, and the distance between them. [...] He's out there by himself. You get the jump in the feet when you read certain passages by him. That's the mark of truly great writing. It gives you the jump in the feet. Dermot Healy

They had gotten the jump on their competitors Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

get the jitters get the job done get the joke get the jump on get the last laugh get the lead out