2009년 7월 24일 금요일

break (new) ground, groundbreaking

20. PHRASE : V inflects
If you break new ground, you do something completely different or you do something in a completely different way.
  • Gellhorn may have broken new ground when she filed her first report on the Spanish Civil War.
groundbreaking, also ground-breaking ADJ : usu ADJ n
You use groundbreaking to describe things which you think are significant because they provide new and positive ideas, and influence the way people think about things.
  • his groundbreaking novel on homosexuality.
  • groundbreaking research.
... Cobuild
break (new) ground:
to do something that has never been done before
  • Movie makers have broken ground in this film with their use of computer-generated special effects.
Etymology: based on the literal meaning of break ground (to dig up land so you can plant crops or build something)
... Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms


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