be in the front line
to be in an important position where you have influence, but where you are likely to be criticized or attacked:
Many social workers are in the front line of racial tension.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Describing the leading position
- ahead
- be streets ahead idiom
- front
- frontier
- lead 1
- lead the field/pack/world idiom
- leading edge
- pacemaker
- pioneering
- spearhead
- standard-bearer
- street
- the cutting edge
- the forefront
- the front line
- the frontiers of sth idiom
- the vanguard
- trailblazer
- van