llevar la delantera

Spanish

Verb

llevar la delantera (first-person singular present llevo la delantera, first-person singular preterite llevé la delantera, past participle llevado la delantera)

1. (idiomatic) to go first; to take the lead

Further reading

• “llevar la delantera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10