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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

... 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

... legality. So much obedience to the law earned so much reward, according to the contract between God and Israel. Theoretically this was just; practically it gave the inside track to the respectable and well to do, for it took leisure and money to obey the minutiae of the Law. In this parable the employer rises from the level of justice to the higher plane of human fellow-feeling. These eleventh-hour men had been ...

— The Social Principles of Jesus • Walter Rauschenbusch

... 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

... Rosebud Opening. I was to cover it for a western newspaper syndicate, and this time I had the inside track. Being familiar with the field and with the government lottery operations, I would be able to get my stories out while other reporters were finding out ...

— Land of the Burnt Thigh • Edith Eudora Kohl