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ahead of your time
having advanced or new ideas that other people use or copy later
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ahead of your time idiom
having very modern ideas:
He was way ahead of his time in realizing the importance of being able to record sound.
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ahead of your time
or before one's time
PHRASE
If someone is ahead of their time or before their time, they have new ideas a long time before other people start to think in the same way.
My mother was ahead of her time. She surrounded me with culture and art.
His only fundamental mistake, he insists, is that he was 20 years before his time.
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ahead of one's time
idiom
: too advanced or modern to be understood or appreciated
As a poet, he was ahead of his time.
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ahead of one's time: advanced or innovative by the standards of the time in question; having or using the latest ideas or technology. Also (usually hyphenated) as adj.
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ahead of your/its time
having or using the most advanced ideas, methods, designs, technology etc
Coleridge was far ahead of his time in his understanding of the unconscious.
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sie ist ihrer Zeit weit voraus
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Nothing Compares review – moving documentary finds Sinéad O’Connor ahead of her time
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These days we’re marinated in news all day long – meaning that Marion Stokes was way ahead of her time.
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In many ways, Arden was ahead of his time. One of his dreams was of theatre as an all-day event that embraced the whole community, and that is exactly what happened last year, when the Wildworks team staged for National Theatre Wales a contemporary version of the Passion story in Port Talbot over the course of an Easter weekend.
