come a long way

Idioms  

1. Make considerable progress or improvement, as in That's good, Rob—you've certainly come a long way. This usage, which transfers the “distance” of a long way to progress, gained considerable currency in the 1960s and 1970s in an advertising slogan for Virginia Slims cigarettes addressed especially to women: “You've come a long way, baby.”

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Example Sentences

Bernstein’s Rasgon said the company’s “AI efforts have admittedly come a long way” — but with OpenAI as the only meaningful customer for Helios so far, the company’s AI story depends on how that partnership progresses, and whether AMD can add more major customers for its first-ever rack-scale offering.

From MarketWatch

“Erato! We’ve come a long way to find you. Are you there?”

From Literature

Metals prices have come a long way over the past 12 months, with silver outshining gold by a wide margin.

From MarketWatch

The stock has come a long way since bouncing off the very round $10 number after completing a bullish island reversal on April 8.

From Barron's

The stock has come a long way since bouncing off the very round $10 number after completing a bullish island reversal on April 8.

From Barron's