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)
- (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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025