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come a long way
Idioms and Phrases
Make considerable progress or improvement, as in That's good, Rob—you've certainly come a long way . This usage, which transfers the “distance” of a long way to progress, gained considerable currency in the 1960s and 1970s in an advertising slogan for Virginia Slims cigarettes addressed especially to women: “You've come a long way, baby.”Example Sentences
The neighborhood has come a long way, she said, and “to see the rest of the shops open up, that’ll be nice.”
And our bills now pay for interest on that debt - it feels like we've come a long way from Thatcher's nation of shareholders.
"I've come a long way in the last week since Indian Wells, I wasn't necessarily feeling great about my tennis, about everything," the 22-year-old told Sky Sports.
He’s come a long way from when he caught the film bug in his youth, which led him to start a videography business while still in school to shoot weddings and other occasions.
Once, she recalled, Becerra Moran saying of the statuette: “Be careful with her, because she’s come a long way with me.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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