pull ahead | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,intransitive)Tomoveinto awinningposition(e.g. in araceorcompetition).After being neck-and-neck the whole race, Gibbs managed topull aheadin the final lap.2018December 1, Drachinifel, 7:26 from the start, inAnti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron‎[1], archived fromthe originalon29 November 2024:The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act had abolished slaverycompletelyin the British Empire, and this, along with the fact that the Empire's military and economic might was beginning topullevenfurtheraheadof other nations', thanks in part to the Industrial Revolution, saw the squadron expand to around twenty-five ships (regularly having to be swapped out because of the high incidence of tropical disease)[…]

Examples:

EN: Well, you got a long pull ahead of you.
ES: Bueno, tienen un largo trecho por delante.
EN: You have quite a long pull ahead of you.
ES: Deberás tomar la iniciativa durante bastante tiempo.
EN: He's got quite a pull ahead of him, Carol.
ES: Él tiene una vida plena por delante, Carol.
EN: We'd begun to pull ahead.
ES: Empezamos a echar hacia adelante.
EN: In just this brief time... you've managed to eradicate your debt of $623... and actually pull ahead $5.14.
ES: En tan poco tiempo... ha logrado erradicar su deuda de 623 dólares... y ganar 5 dólares y 14 centavos.
EN: Wait till my signal, then pull ahead.
ES: Espera a mi señal, luego ve por delante.
EN: You should always try to... pull ahead!
ES: Realmente deberías intentar ir a la... cabeza.
EN: They want us to pull ahead here.
ES: Quieren que nos adelantemos.
EN: And thanks to Nebraska, the Yankees pull ahead 1 to nothing.
ES: Y gracias a Nebraska, Los Yanquis están ganando 1 a 0.
EN: We're heading northeast, parallel about to pull ahead of it on the left.
ES: Vamos al nordeste, paralelos a punto de adelantárnosle por la izquierda.
EN: If she can make this one, The Americans can pull ahead by one goal... and put the heat squarely back on their opponents.
ES: Si convierte, las norteamericanas quedarán adelante por un gol, y la cosa se pondrá caliente para sus oponentes.
EN: We're still very confident to win this show, and it'll be real dramatic to have a team come from way behind and pull ahead and land a squeaker.
ES: Todavía estamos confiados que podremos ganar esta competencia. Será muy dramático tener a un equipo que viene muy por detrás, ...que luego ganan la ventaja, y después triunfan.
EN: It'll be real dramatic to have a team come from way behind and pull ahead.
ES: Será muy dramático tener a un equipo que viene muy por detrás, y después triunfan.
EN: but it's so hard to pull ahead alone
ES: Aún es difícil seguir... adelante.
EN: I'll get you to pull ahead.
ES: La llevaré adelante.

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