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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
Zara has come a long way since its founder Amancio Ortega started the business.
From dragging tyres up hills in South London to a gold rush and signing ringside at some of the biggest fights of the past year, the 33-year-old has come a long way in a short time.
And for a person who has come a long way in his career and who managed to come a long way this season, that’s special.
But in other places, we haven’t come a long way.
The neighborhood has come a long way, she said, and “to see the rest of the shops open up, that’ll be nice.”
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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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