go places

1. Make progress, succeed, as in I suspect they'll be going places with the new product, or Now that she has her doctorate I'm sure she'll go places. [Colloquial; early 1900s]

Example Sentences

“You could tell by the way he approached things that that’s a driven young dude that really wants to go places,” said RIG head coach Robert Johansson.

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“She’s beloved and she has worked for that. And that was also important for this because I’m asking the viewer to go places with this character that get quite dark, that get uncomfortable.”

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I’m very careful who I’m around, where I go, when I go places and when I stay home, and even thoughtful about what I say, because this is what’s been helping me,” he said.

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Atlas: “They made each other and they broke each other. They brought out the best in each other and helped destroy each other. They forced each other to go places neither would have gone without the other.”

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I would like to go places where I was going as a young kid, with them, without them needing to stop all the time and just enjoy the time with them.

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Related Words

• accelerate 
• achieve 
• move up 
• progress 
• promote 
• propel 
• speed 
• storm