tip of the spear

noun

Definitions

  1. The foremost person or group

    The foremost person or group; those on the front lines.

    • Bannon called Argentina “the tip of the tip of the spear of the fight for the Judeo-Christian west”.
  2. The leading position of someone in a difficult situation.

    • In this and similar theorizing of criminal-justice reform, Simonson draws the focus of reform advocates to the tip of the spear—police administration.

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