come a long way

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.”

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Speaking through their legal representatives, the pair said despite going through some dark times they had "definitely come a long way" since the crash.

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It has come a long way from the start of this year when one affected man from Merthyr Tydfil described the Heads of the Valleys as "like the road from hell".

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Needless to say, technology – both in aircraft design and everything else – has come a long way in the ensuing years.

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The club, as much as the player, have come a long way.

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Zara has come a long way since its founder Amancio Ortega started the business.

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