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*before someone

ahead of or in front of someone in order. (*Typically: be ~; get ~; go ~.) Who is before Mary? I am before all of you.

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• About time too!
• age before beauty
• appear before
• be before (one's) time
• be before time
• be just before you're generous
• before
• before (one's) time
• before (one's) very eyes
• before can say Jack Robinson
• before could blink
• before know it
• before last
• before long
• before the wind
• before time
• before you can say
• before you can say "knife"
• before you can say Jack Robinson
• before you know it
• bend before
• boldly go where no man has gone before
• boldly go where no one has gone before
• bow before
• bow down before (someone)
• bow down to (someone)
• bring before
• bros before hoes
• Business before pleasure
• cart before the horse, put the
• cast pearls before swine
• chicks before dicks
• come before
• Coming events cast their shadows before
• count chickens before they hatch
• count one's chickens before they hatch
• Cowards die many times before their death
• cringe before
• cross a bridge before one comes to it
• cry before one is hurt
• dangle before
• darkest hour is just before the dawn
• don't count your chickens before they're hatched
• Don't cry before you are hurt
• Don't put the cart before the horse
• Fingers were made before forks
• go before
• go on before
• grovel before
• haul before
• Haven't I seen you somewhere before?
• It's always darkest just before the dawn
• lay before
• lie ahead of
• lie before (someone or something)
• Look before you leap
• lull before the storm
• Never ask pardon before you are accused
• one hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after
• pearls before swine
• place before
• Pride comes before a fall
• Pride goes before a fall
• prostrate oneself before
• put before
• put the cart before the horse
• quail before
• reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall
• run before can walk
• sail before the wind
• see in hell before
• send before
• set before
• sing before breakfast, you'll cry before night
• sisters before misters
• summon before
• swim before eyes
• take before
• take the ball before the bound
• the calm before the storm
• the cart before the horse
• The darkest hour is just before the dawn
• the lull before the storm
• the morning after the night before
• think before doing
• up before
• use before
• We must learn to walk before we can run
• would see in hell before would
• wrap it before you tap it
• You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die
• you should know a man seven years before you stir his fire