I'm gonna smoke you

CharmYouWhat do I say if I want to go after my friends to the cashier to pay the bill?

After you.
You go first.

(The three you suggested are off the wall, if I may say.

CalifJim CharmYouWhat do I say if I want to go after my friends to the cashier to pay the bill?After you.You go first.(The three you suggested are off the wall, if I may say. )off the wall = bizarrely inappropriateCJ

I'm terribly sorry. I wanted to say before my friends but somehow I mis-typed it. (Maybe it was because I forgot the meaning of the word after)

CharmYouCan I say any of the examples in the original post?

Even in this new situation, the words sound, as Clive said of the old, bizarrely inappropriate.

Well, last time when I was trying to pay for my foreign teachers' drink, she said "I'll beat you!." and then she went before me to the cashier to pay the drink. I failed to treat her.

fivejedjonas Clive said

CJ

CharmYou she said "I'll beat you!"

Yes, as in a race to the cashier's. "I'll beat you to the cashier's." (I'll win the race.) Casual speech.

CJ

CalifJim fivejedjonas Clive saidCJ

I do apologise, CJ. I must get my senile dementia carer to up my dosage.

fivejedjon ... , CJ. I must get ...

Not to worry. It's amazing how often that same substitution is made, even by people half our age!

I think I know what you were tying to say, but it was off.

I'm going to beat you to it!
In this context, "it" refers to paying the bill, and beat is used as in to beat someone at a race.

I've got the jump on you. OR I'll get the jump on you. (Implied by context is "in paying" at the end of each of these options)

OR I'll get a jump on paying the bill. (Implied by co

Thanks. So, jump on and beat is ok. What about smoke you?