vantage : Idioms & Phrases


To have at vantage

  • to have the advantage of; to be in a more favorable condition than. "He had them at vantage, being tired and harassed with a long march." Bacon.
Webster 1913

Vantage ground

  • superiority of state or place; the place or condition which gives one an advantage over another. "The vantage ground of truth. Bacon.
    It is these things that give him his actual standing, and it is from this vantage ground that he looks around him. I. Taylor.
Webster 1913

vantage point

  • noun a place from which something can be viewed
    viewpoint.
    • from that vantage point he could survey the whole valley
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