break new ground

Related to break new ground: put on airs, at first, get off the ground, swept up, stroll around, cut some slack, give it a shot

break new ground

To innovate. They've really broken new ground with their latest product—I've never seen anything like it.
See also: break, ground, new
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

break new ground

Fig. to begin to do something that no one else has done; to pioneer [in an enterprise]. Dr. Anderson was breaking new ground in cancer research. They were breaking new ground in consumer electronics.
See also: break, ground, new
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

break new ground

COMMON If someone breaks new ground, they make progress by doing something completely different. The programme broke new ground, in giving to women roles traditionally assigned to men. They're trying to break new ground, make a new kind of cinema. Note: You can also use ground-breaking before a noun. He was given an award for his ground-breaking work in the field. She wrote a ground-breaking book on the subject. Note: You use these expressions to show approval.
See also: break, ground, new
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

break new (or fresh) ground

do something innovative which is considered an advance or positive benefit.
Literally, to break new ground is to do preparatory digging or other work prior to building or planting something. In North America the idiom is break ground .
See also: break, ground, new
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

break fresh/new ˈground

make a discovery; use new methods, etc: We’re breaking fresh ground with our new freezing methods. ▶ ˈground-breaking adj.: a ground-breaking discovery/report
See also: break, fresh, ground, new
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

break new ground

To advance beyond previous achievements: broke new ground in the field of computers.
See also: break, ground, new
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See also:
  • break fresh/new ground
  • hit the ground running
  • hit the ground running, to
  • suit (one) down to the ground
  • suit down to the ground
  • suit somebody down to the ground
  • suit someone down to the ground
  • suit someone or something down to the ground
  • in the ground
  • to ground
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The readings themselves occasionally break new ground, as in Duncan's compelling discussions of neglected stories like "The Shadow of My Past" and "White Weeds." But the narratological approach serves more as a method of grouping stories into convenient "cluste rs" than as an interpretive or theoretical fulcrum, and thus Duncan finally has little more to tell us about Chesnutt's art than that it deserves to be better known.
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