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Bolivian marching powder

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steal a march

Idiom(s): steal a march (on sb)

Theme: CLEVERNESS

to get some sort of an advantage over someone without being noticed.
• I got the contract because I was able to steal a march on my competitor.
• You have to be clever and fast—not dishonest—to steal a march.

march to a different drummer

Idiom(s): march to a different drummer

Theme: DIFFERENCE

to believe in a different set of principles.
• John is marching to a different drummer, and he doesn't come to our parties anymore.
• Since Sally started marching to a different drummer, she has had a lot of great new ideas.

Mad as a March hare

Someone who is excitable and unpredictable is as mad as a March hare.

March to the beat of your own drum

If people march to the beat of their own drum, they do things the way they want without taking other people into consideration.

give someone their marching orders

fire someone: "After the argument, he was given his marching orders."
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get your feet under the table
get settled in: "It only took him a week to get his feet under the table, then he started to make changes."

mad as a hatter|March|March hare|hare|hatter|mad|m

adj. phr. Not able to think right; crazy. Anyone who thinks the moon is made of green cheese is mad as a hatter.

steal a march on|march|steal

v. phr. To get ahead of someone by doing a thing unnoticed; get an advantage over. The army stole a march on the enemy by marching at night and attacking them in the morning. Jack got the job by getting up earlier than Bill. He stole a march on him.
Compare: GET THE JUMP ON, GET THE BETTER OF, TAKE BY SURPRISE.

march

march
In addition to the idiom beginning with march, also see steal a march on.

march to a different beat

march to a different beat
Also, march to a different drummer. Act independently, differ in conduct or ideas from most others, as in Joe wanted to be married on a mountain top—he always marches to a different beat, or Sarah has her own ideas for the campaign; she marches to a different drummer. This idiom, alluding to being out of step in a parade, is a version of Henry David Thoreau's statement in Walden (1854): “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.” It came into wide use in the mid-1900s.

marching orders, get one's

marching orders, get one's
Be ordered to move on or proceed; also, be dismissed from a job. For example, The sales force got their marching orders yesterday, so now they'll be on the road with the new product, or It's too bad about Jack—the boss gave him his marching orders Friday. This expression originally alluded to a military command. [Colloquial; late 1700s]

steal a march on

steal a march on
Gain an advantage over unexpectedly or secretly, as in Macy's stole a march on their rival department store with their Thanksgiving Day parade. This metaphoric expression comes from medieval warfare, where a march was the distance an army could travel in a day. By quietly marching at night, a force could surprise and overtake the enemy at daybreak. Its figurative use dates from the second half of the 1700s.