What does it mean "to be ahead of the curb"?

Question

in such a sentence: "I want to be ahead of the curb".

Answer 1

In any new process, there is something called a learning curve, i.e., the time and effort required to learn some new skill. Some are steep, some are shallow. To be "ahead of the curve" means that you are better than the average person at picking up whatever skill you are trying to learn.

Answer 2

Ahead Of The Curve Meaning

Answer 3

If you indeed want "to be ahead of the curb" you need to aptly predict what is going to happen in the future and do it now...such as if you like a band when they are really small and then they get famous, you will have successfully been ahead of the curb

Many times this expression is used in popular culture, such as if you started wearing socks with sandals and then they became the fashion statement...this would again make you ahead of the curb

Answer 4

LOL. Good point. When she said that she literally meant "full speed to the white house" where she will stop at nothing, and I mean nothing, regardless how filthy, disgtusting, belittling it is to her opponent, only so that she can go down in history as the first woman president of the United states and add a crowning glory for the Clinton legacy, i.e., two Clintons from the same family to become presidents, just like the two perverted, twisted Bush's. Thank god she will not make it. But had she? her poltics would have melded directly into the same ol same ol...but 2012-13, Americans would have no medical insurance (she's a liar, she could never get free medical ins. to anyone) NO retirement pensions, nothing. America, regardless of who gets into the stained white house, will fast be on it's way to a second world country.

Answer 5

You mean "ahead of the curve". It is in reference to a typical line graph which is shaped like a bell. For example: if you graph the grades of everyone in a high school glass, you'll have few that are failing, a slighty larger number that are getting D's, a greater number that are getting C's, slightly lower number that are getting B's, and even fewer that are getting A's. Being ahead of the curve, means that you are on the right side of the curve...you are doing better than most.

Answer 6

The correct quotation is "ahead of the curve." It is about statistics - most things, when measured, form a bell-shaped frequency distribution, the Gaussian curve. If we look at something like product adoption, some few people are early, most people are in the middle, and a few others are late. "Ahead of the curve" is, in some sense, beating the crowd. If you look at the total sales of a product, using both this bell shaped curved and its summation the logistic curve, the biggest profits are made ahead of the main body, "ahead of the curve."

Answer 7

" To be ahead of the curve ".

The few companies that were bottling water in the early 80's while others laughed at them. Were ahead of the curve... for later on it is now one of the hottest markets. They were ahead of the others in seeing a business growing... they were ahead of the curve (curve meaning others).

Apple was ahead of the curve when they released the iPod. All the rest just had cheap MP3 players or the old walkman types with just Cd's or tapes. Apple was ahead of the rest in thinking, in turn, they were ahead of the curve. (the thinking of all the others)

Answer 8

I want to be ahead of the curve, so when I go to take a test, I bring my own pencils instead of waiting for them to hand pencils out.

Answer 9

the word is curve

the link beats the topic to death, but you will be able to use the phrase