Ahead of one’s time
in advance of current ideas, customs, or methods, as in his treatment of light showed this painter to be well ahead of his time, or wearing trousers and smoking cigars marked amy lowell as a woman ahead of her time. this idiom uses time in the sense of “era” or “generation,” a usage at least a thousand years old. the phrase is usually but not always used to express approval. [ first half of 1900s ]
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a continuously bending line, without angles. the act or extent of curving. any curved outline, form, thing, or part. a curved section of a road, path, hallway, etc. railroads. a curved section of track: in the u.s. the curve is often expressed as the central angle, measured in degrees, of a curved section of track […]
- Ahead of time
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another. duration regarded as belonging to the present life as distinct from the life to come or from eternity; finite duration. (sometimes initial capital letter) […]
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