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break ground

break ground {v. phr.}

To begin a construction project by digging for the foundation; especially, to turn the formal first spadeful of dirt.

City officials and industrial leaders were there as the company broke ground for its new building.

See: BREAK NEW GROUND.

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[ground] See: [BREAK GROUND], [COMMON GROUND], [COVER GROUND] or [COVER THE GROUND], [CUT THE GROUND FROM UNDER], [EAR TO THE GROUND], [FEET ON THE GROUND], [GAIN GROUND], [GET OFF THE […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

break new ground

[break new ground] {v. phr.} 1. To start a new activity previously neglected by others; do pioneering work. * /Albert Einstein broke new ground with his theory of relativity./ 2. […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

ear to the ground

[ear to the ground] {n. phr.}, {informal} Attention directed to the way things are going, or seem likely to go, or to the way people feel and think. * /The […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

stand one's ground

[stand one's ground] also [hold one's ground] {v. phr.} 1. To stay and fight instead of running away. * /The enemy attacked in great numbers but our men stood their […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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