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Inside track

noun

A favorable position in a competition.

The inner side of a curved racecourse.

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"Inside track" Quotes from Famous Books

... got the inside track and mean to keep it!" he said to himself, as he drove homeward. And he did keep it. He was really a very fascinating man when he chose to be so, and he generally did choose to be so. And he could "make love ...

— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... youth and mining experience and the inside track, as well as stancher friends than he ever dreamed of," laughed Ridgway, clapping the other on the back. "Well, good night, ...

— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine

... Barkman even to get down; he was to go right off at once, but when he returned she'd meet him. With a grave respectful bow he lifted his hat, and drove away. On the whole, he had reason to be proud of his diplomacy; reason, too, for saying to himself that at last he had got on "the inside track." Still, all the factors in the problem were not seen ...

— Elder Conklin and Other Stories • Frank Harris

... so," Bristles hastened to admit, as he cast a quick glance at the almost ropeless wooden windlass; "don't you see the bucket's away down? Whoever it is, Fred, they just can't climb up again. It takes you to get on the inside track of ...

— Fred Fenton on the Track - or, The Athletes of Riverport School • Allen Chapman

... almost stroke for stroke about half a dozen yards apart, and until they were within thirty yards or so of the third swimmer, they were practically neck and neck, though Castellan had the advantage of what might be called the inside track. In other words he was a little nearer to the girl than ...

— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith

Words linked to "Inside track" : path, track, favourable position, favorable position, racecourse, racetrack, raceway, superiority, course