see the world

see the world

To travel to many different cities, countries, or regions around the world. I love my children more than life itself, but I do wish I saw the world a bit more before becoming a parent. Living in such a small town made her yearn to set off on her own and see the world.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

see the ˈworld

travel, live or work in many different parts of the world: A lot of students take a year off after university to travel and see the world.
See also: see, world
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • to the ends of the world
  • come into the world
  • (all) the world over
  • the world over
  • for all the world as if (someone or something)
  • on the trot
  • what in the world
  • from all corners of the world
  • all over the world
  • from all four corners of the world
References in classic literature
This seclusion and the restrictions laid upon my going out, were it only to church, have been keeping me unhappy for many a day and month past; I longed to see the world, or at least the town where I was born, and it did not seem to me that this wish was inconsistent with the respect maidens of good quality should have for themselves.
"Nothing has happened me," said she, "nor was it jealousy that brought me out, but merely a longing to see the world, which did not go beyond seeing the streets of this town."
"No harm has been done," said Sancho; "come, we will leave you at your father's house; perhaps they will not have missed you; and another time don't be so childish or eager to see the world; for a respectable damsel should have a broken leg and keep at home; and the woman and the hen by gadding about are soon lost; and she who is eager to see is also eager to be seen; I say no more."
Don Quixote
She could not see the world divided into separate compartments of good people and bad people, any more than she could believe so implicitly in the rightness of her own thought as to wish to bring the population of the British Isles into agreement with it.
Night and Day
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"I get to open that door for myself and bring other people in to see the world," she added.
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