ahead of the pack

Meanings

prepositional phrase

idiomaticPerforming better than others.
Some very significant but not very widely known news (even in the sector itself) is that rail is not only uniquely placed to benefit from this promised change of direction, there is already solid evidence to put the rail sector ahead of the pack as a potential investment priority.
2020 December 2, Nigel Harris, “The UK's worst crisis since 1709”, in Rail, page 3

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