pave the way
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
pave the way
- (idiomatic, often followed by for) To make future progress or development easier.
- Germany's development of rocket weapons paved the way for human controlled spaceflight.
- 1972, “Revolution at Floodtide”, in Thomas G[arden] Barnes and Gerald D[onald] Feldman, editors, Nationalism, Industrialization, and Democracy 1815–1914 (A Documentary History of Europe; III), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, OCLC 287083; republished Lanham, Md.; London: University Press of America, 1980, ISBN 978-0-8191-1079-4, page 91 ↗:
- Prince Louis Napoleon was president of France, and his dictatorial behaviour was paving the way for his assumption of the imperial crown.
- grease the wheels
- set the stage
- French: ouvrir la voie
- German: den Weg ebnen
- Italian: aprire la strada
- Russian: проложить путь
- Spanish: allanar el camino
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