🗓️ Idiom: Ahead of the Curve (adj)
💬 Meaning
- More advanced or modern than others.
- It means doing something before most people or businesses.
🧠 Example Sentences
- Our IT team is ahead of the curve with new cybersecurity tools.
- Investing in automation early helped us stay ahead of the curve.
- Companies that adopt AI now will be ahead of the curve in the future.
🏛️ Origin
The phrase comes from statistics and economics, where a “curve” shows how things grow or change over time. Being ahead of the curve means you are doing something earlier or faster than the average.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
By launching the app early, we stayed __________ in the tech market.
Answer
ahead of the curve
2. Choose the correct meaning of “ahead of the curve”:
A) Behind in progress
B) More modern or advanced than others
C) Out of business
D) Confused or uncertain
Answer
B) More modern or advanced than others
3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:
“They used new software before their competitors did.” → Change the sentence using: ahead of the curve
Answer
They were ahead of the curve by using new software before their competitors.