lean forward
v. phr.— «It seems to me that the government should lean forward and it shouldn’t wait until these plots become operational. It should move in at the aspirational stage, and apparently that’s what the FBI did here.» —“Lou Dobbs Tonight” by Lou Dobbs CNN June 23, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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