🗓️ Idiom: Breaking New Ground (v)
💬 Meaning
- To do something completely new or different.
- It means starting fresh ideas or making big progress in a new area.
🧠 Example Sentences
- The team is breaking new ground with their virtual reality training app.
- Our developers broke new ground by using AI in a way no one else had.
- The project is breaking new ground in digital security solutions.
🏛️ Origin
This idiom originally referred to digging or preparing land for the first time, such as for farming or building. In business and technology, it now means creating something original or innovative.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
Our software engineers are __________ in user experience design.
Answer
breaking new ground
2. Choose the correct meaning of “breaking new ground”:
A) Fixing old problems
B) Starting something completely new
C) Repeating past success
D) Working slower than expected
Answer
B) Starting something completely new
3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:
“They created something original that had never been done before.” → Change the sentence using: break new ground
Answer
They broke new ground by creating something original.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
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