Wiktionary
prep.phr. (context idiomatic English) Having completed a task before it is due; ready, prepared, or anticipating.
WordNet
adv. in an advantageous position; "she's ahead of the game"
Usage examples of "ahead of the game".
Besides, we're getting ahead of the game on SheVas and I sent SheVa Nine down there to backstop Fourteen.
Steve has eight of the twelve so I figured that I was ahead of the game.
They'd wanted to change the world of here and now, and they'd succeeded, but that meant they were no longer a move ahead of the game.
If you know better, that puts you ahead of the game from the start.
It looked as if only the old man with the big nose might be ahead of the game so far—.
He looked to the woman who'd shut up the screamer - she'd been ahead of the game then, so she was as good a shout as anyone.
But to stay ahead of the game, you didn't just have to know how to work the communications media, you had to keep pace with its own evolution.
Some fifteen minutes later, when he was twelve dollars and thirty cents ahead of the game, he heard the low moan of a siren, and shortly afterwards, the clang of an ambulance bell.