steal a march | Idiomator

Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic)To gain anadvantageunobserved.1759August 1,Horace Walpole,Letter to Sir Horace Mann,page501:Fifty thousand men cannot easilysteal a marchover the sea.1771, [Tobias Smollett], “To Sir Watkin Phillips, of Jesus College, Oxon.”, inThe Expedition of Humphry Clinker[…], volume I, London:[…]W. Johnston,[…]; and B. Collins,[…],→OCLC,pages127–128:You muſt knovv, ſhe yeſterday vvanted toſteal a marchof poor Liddy, and vvent to breakfaſt in the Room vvithout any other companion than her dog, in expectation of meeting vvith the Baronet,[…]1883,George MacDonald, chapter 67, inDonal Grant:He enjoyed the idea ofstealing a marchon society, and seeing the sons he had left at such a disadvantage behind him, ruffling it, in spite of absurd law, with the foolish best.2023May 25, David Smith, “Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk andRon DeSantis”, inKatharine Viner, editor,The Guardian‎[1], London:Guardian News & Media,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon25 May 2023:For[Elon] Muskit looked like an easy win in his effort to make Twitter the public square, especially one that attracts rightwing blowhards andsteal a marchon Fox News.; (intransitive,idiomatic)To start early.Theystole a marchby taking non-merchandise inventory on January 2.1905,Jack London,All Gold Canyon:In the morning hestole a marchon the sun, for he had finished breakfast when its first rays caught him.

Examples:

EN: Nothing, except you meant to steal a march on me!
ES: Nada, es sólo que intentaste ganarme la mano.
EN: You let him steal a march on us.
ES: ¡Nos ha robado la invasión!
ES: ¡Le has dejado que nos robe la invasión!
EN: I thought if I got in quick, I could steal a march on my... competitors.
ES: Creí que si me adelantaba aventajaría a mis competidores.
EN: So you come back soon or he'll steal a march on you, he will.
ES: Así que vuelve pronto, o te robará el partido, lo hará.
EN: He is. Let's steal a march on him.
ES: El es,vamos a intentar alcanzarlo
EN: Maybe Protestantism could steal a march on Catholicism...
ES: Tal vez el protestantismo podría ganarle la mano al catolicismo
EN: Worse still, the man Apple had turned to, to write extra software for the Mac was about to steal a march on them.
ES: Peor aún, el hombre Apple se había puesto a trabajar sobre un software adicional porque la Mac estaba a punto de adelantárseles.
EN: Otherwise, the enemy would be able to steal a march against us while we remain confused.
ES: De lo contrario, el enemigo podría robarnos una marcha mientras permanecemos confundidos.
EN: In the early 1950's we were concerned that the Soviet Union, which had kept pace with us in the development of nuclear reactors for power, would steal a march on us and get the commercial business in Europe.
ES: En los años 50, nos preocupaba que la Unión Soviética que nos pisaba los talones en el desarrollo de reactores nucleares nos adelantara consiguiendo el negocio comercial en Europa.
EN: And, with the help of the new German state, they saw how to steal a march on their competitors.
ES: Y, con la ayuda de el nuevo estado alemán, vieron como sacar ventaja de sus competidores.
EN: That's why it became prohibited to steal a march on one of them.
ES: Por eso se prohibió robar una marcha en uno de ellos.
EN: I'll cook us up something, and we can steal a march on the casting.
ES: Cocinaré algo, y podremos ganarle de mano al casting.
EN: He'll be working his ways on Woodes Rogers, trying to steal a march on yous all, no doubt,
ES: Intentará persuadir a Rogers para que cese su batalla contra vosotros
EN: Some say that Yun's move is an attempt to steal a march on the Prosecution...
ES: Algunos dicen que el movimiento de Yun es un intento de robarle la delantera a la Fiscalía...
EN: We can steal a march on Gorfydd
ES: Podemos adelantarnos a Gorfydd

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