ahead of one's time

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Prepositional phrase

ahead of one's time

(idiomatic) In advance of concurrent commonly accepted ideas; showing characteristics of changes yet to be; present in one's work before later advances in the field.
- 1990: Ken Frieden, Freud’s dream of interpretation, SUNY Press, 1990, →ISBN, 9780791401248, page 135.
  With his practice of dream interpretation by free association, Freud was both ahead of his time and behind his time.

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Translations

in advance of commonly accepted ideas

Arabic: سابق عصره‎ m (sabiq as'rih), سابقة عصرها‎ f (sabiqat as'riha), سابقون عصرهم‎ m pl (sabiqoon as'rihom), سابقات عصرهن‎ f pl (sabiqat as'rihin)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 先見之明 (zh), 先见之明 (zh) (xiānjiànzhīmíng)
Danish: forud for sin tid
Dutch: zijn tijd vooruit, zijn tijd ver vooruit
Finnish: aikaansa edellä
French: en avance sur son temps

Hebrew: הִקְדִּים אֶת זְמַנּוֹ‎ (hiqdím et zmanó)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forut for sin tid

Nynorsk: forut for si tid
Portuguese: à frente de seu tempo
Swedish: före sin tid

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