Your Reputation Precedes You spoken language informal
Don't act weird and think nobody knows you. Your reputation precedes you.
You don't have to waste much time introducing yourself, your reputation precedes you.
1. To seize or take control of someone, something, or some place with a sudden and fierce attack
2. To gain a rapid and great fame or success in a place, a field or a particular group of people
Someone is not as bad, cruel, maleficent as they are said or believed to be.
Someone or something that attracts great interest or attention only for a short time but then quickly forgotten.
Used to indicate any gossip, rumor, or unfounded information that spread in the military latrines (communal toilets).
This phrase is fairly literal and can be either positive or negative. It is thought to derive from the latter half of the 1900s.
To be very wet
Because of forgetting bringing an umbrella, I look like a drowned rat when it rains.