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Inside track   /ɪnsˈaɪd træk/   Listen
adjective
Inside  adj.  
1.
Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration. "Kissing with inside lip."
2.
Adapted to the interior.
Inside callipers (Mech.), callipers for measuring the diameters of holes, etc.
Inside finish (Arch.), a general term for the final work in any building necessary for its completion, but other than unusual decoration; thus, in joiner work, the doors and windows, inside shutters, door and window trimmings, paneled jams, baseboards, and sometimes flooring and stairs; in plaster work, the finishing coat, the cornices, centerpieces, etc.,; in painting, all simple painting of woodwork and plastering.
Inside track, the inner part of a race course; hence, colloquially, advantage of place, facilities, contacts, etc., in competition.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Inside track" Quotes from Famous Books



... legality. So much obedience to the law earned so much reward, according to the contract between God and Israel. Theoretically this was just; practically it gave the inside track to the respectable and well to do, for it took leisure and money to obey the minutiae of the Law. In this parable the employer rises from the level of justice to the higher plane of human fellow-feeling. These eleventh-hour men had been ...
— The Social Principles of Jesus • Walter Rauschenbusch



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