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Also, have the edge on . Have an advantage over, as in Our team has an edge on them , or In this competition our town has the edge . The use of edge here alludes to the power to cut, transferred to a margin of superiority. [Late 1800s]

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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