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look ahead

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? look ahead
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(lit) → nach vorne sehen or gucken (inf)
(fig) → vorausschauen; when we look ahead to the next 30 years/the future of this country → wenn wir die nächsten 30 Jahre/die Zukunft dieses Landes betrachten; a good manager is one who can look ahead → ein guter Manager muss Weitblick haben


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It just makes a boy homesick to look ahead like that and see how far off summer is.
Tom Sawyer Detective by Twain, Mark View in context
There she is, over an hour late; a little more an' she'd 'a' been caught in a thunder shower, but she'd never look ahead," said Miranda to Jane; "and added to all her other iniquities, if she ain't rigged out in that new dress, steppin' along with her father's dancin'-school steps, and swingin' her parasol for all the world as if she was play-actin'.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
Life itself is unsatisfaction, but to look ahead to death is greater unsatisfaction.
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