come a long way

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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But in other places, we haven’t come a long way.

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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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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.

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