ahead of your time
/əˌhed əv jɔː ˈtaɪm/NEUTRAL · C1
Meaning
more innovative than most people of your period
Examples
- 1Her designs were ahead of her time; the same ideas became fashionable thirty years later.
- 2The architect was ahead of his time, designing energy-saving homes long before they became popular.
- 3She proposed online lessons decades before home computers; she was ahead of her time.
- 4Those engineers were ahead of their time: their rejected battery design is now the industry standard.
- 5His adjustable furniture seemed strange then, but its later popularity showed he was ahead of his time.
Grammar
Match your to the person or thing described. Keep time singular; ahead of time without a possessive has a different meaning.
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All 20 idioms and the topic quiz →stand the test of timeto remain useful, strong or popular over many yearsa race against timean urgent effort to finish before a deadlineon the spur of the momentsuddenly, without having planned beforehandlose track of timeto stop noticing how much time has passedhave time on your handsto have free hours with nothing that needs doingbide your timeto wait patiently for a suitable opportunity to act
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