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catbird seatsnounpl. of catbird seat the more favorable condition or position in a competitionyour fluency in French should put you in the catbird seat for getting the Paris posting advantages, betters, bulges, drops, edges, high grounds, inside tracks, jumps, pulls, steads, upper hands, vantages, whip hands allowances, head starts, leads, legs up, margins, odds, startsascendancies(also ascendencies), commands, dominances, masteries, predominances, superiorities, supremacies, transcendences, transcendenciesprecedences, preferences, prerogatives, privileges, senioritiesbreaks, footholds, opportunitiesbenefits, blessings, boons, felicities, godsends, mannas, windfalls coigns of vantage disadvantages, drawbacks, handicaps, liabilities, minuses, penalties, strikes detriments, strangleholdsdisparities, imbalances, inequalitiesdisabilities, failings, impairments, shortcomingsbars, catches, checks, clogs, crimps, embarrassments, hindrances, hitches, hurdles, impediments, interferences, lets, manacles, obstacles, obstructions, rubs, shackles, stops, trammelslurches, setbacks the center of public attentionin the wake of the natural disaster, this obscure bureaucrat was suddenly and unexpectedly thrust into the catbird seat |