vantage

a coign of vantage

dated A beneficial spot or position, especially for viewing something. "Coign" is an archaic spelling of "quoin," the outside corner of a building or wall. My office affords me a fine coign of vantage, as I can watch everyone on the floor without them knowing,
See also: coign, of, vantage
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

coign of vantage

a favourable position for observation or action. literary
The literal sense of a coign of vantage is ‘a projecting corner of a wall or building’; the phrase appears in Shakespeare 's Macbeth in Duncan's description of the nesting places of the swifts at Macbeth's castle. The word quoin meaning ‘an external angle of a building’ still exists in English, but the archaic spelling coign survives mainly in this phrase.
See also: coign, of, vantage
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • a coign of vantage
  • coign
  • coign of vantage
  • any fule kno
  • put asunder
  • another pair of eyes
  • a fresh pair of eyes
  • go out of use
  • au naturel
  • of that ilk
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Outgoing chief Craig Richmond will leave the post to take up a senior position within the Vantage Airport Group network in Cyprus.
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Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc on Tuesday announced that Steinburg Diagnostic Medical Imaging Center (SDMI) in Las Vegas has recently installed the first Vantage Tital 3T in the US.
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Vantage has routed the pipeline so that it will be within or alongside existing pipelines and road right-of-way for 503-km.
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Miami, FL, January 13, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Vantage is a Chicago based specialty chemicals company focused on naturally derived ingredients for a growing and diverse set of global end markets, including consumer products, personal care, food and industrial markets.
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From left: William Mack, chairman of Area Property Partners, Neil Rubler, CEO of Vantage Properties, 43-09 47th Avenue in Sunnyside and 102-43 Corona Avenue in Corona
Vantage transfers stake in $540 million Queens portfolio to partner Area Property