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Comment by milansm | Hacker News Reader

> I'm streets ahead of the average Joe

Has anyone seen "streets ahead" being used by anyone else besides Pierce Hawtorn and the OP? I mean, is it widely used now? (I'm not native speaker, obviously)

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I'm using it as much as possible just to push it into language.

I read it as a Pierce Hawthorneism.

It's been common parlance in English for centuries.

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