ahead of the game

1. 1.

   in an advantageous position

   “she's ahead of the game”

Questions about ahead of the game

What does ahead of the game mean?

ahead of the game means "in an advantageous position".

Is ahead of the game a common word?

ahead of the game is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.