inside track

the inside track

An advantage over someone or something. I hope I have the inside track on the competition, thanks to my extensive student teaching experience.
See also: inside, track
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*inside track

Fig. an advantage (over someone) gained through special connections, special knowledge, or favoritism. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) If I could get the inside track, I could win the contract. The boss likes me. Since I've got the inside track, I'll probably be the new office manager.
See also: inside, track
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

inside track, the

A position of special advantage. The term comes from racing, alluding to the inner or shorter track of a course, on which it is easier to win. It originated in America in the mid-nineteenth century. “It gave him the inside track, as the sporting men say, with reference to any rival” (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Guardian Angel, 1867).
See also: inside
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • inside track, the
  • the inside track
  • have the inside track
  • have one up on (someone or something)
  • have the bulge on
  • have the bulge on (someone or something)
  • get the bulge on (someone or something)
  • be one up on (someone or something)
  • be one up on someone
  • be/get/have one up on somebody
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Two of the finalists who went through from the Tedco heat, held in Jarrow, were from the new Inside Track scheme which pairs up a final-year business studies and design student and asks them to work together on the same project.
Investment brings a big return in just eight weeks
It was run by the London-based Management and Enterprise Training Organisation and Manchester-based company Inside Track. But not along after the project ended in 2000, Inside Track went into liquidation.
Council faced with pounds 1/4m bill as project fails; Collapse leaves city to refund EU grant
But one that stands out from the crowd is Inside Track from Patrick McKenna's Ingenious Media.
Inside track stumps to raise $150 mil in prod'n coin. (U.K.)
But Paul Smith had the inside track on the three biggest stories of the year.
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Dublin playing on the same day is not ideal but I suppose if it was Meath playing the final it would be a lot worse as our director Noel Meade wouldn't be there!" Progress following the remedial work carried out on the inside track is "as good as we could hope for" according to Roe, who also revealed EasyFix hurdles are to be used at several meetings over the coming months.
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