streets ahead comes from cribbage

I used to play cribbage with my grandparents, too - I love all the arcanery of terms such as "and one for his hat", but don't specifically remember hearing this one. Sounds plausible, though; on the same lines it could come from Monopoly if it's not much older, which I suspect it is.

PS I still have a couple of the wonderful scoring boards with little turned ivory pegs, including one which is triangular in layout!