to cover more ground
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3.7
- idiom
:
recorrer más terreno
- We can cover more ground.
- cover more ground
- cover a lot of ground
- cover much ground
Examples
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Let's split up so we can cover more ground.
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We'll cover much more ground this way.
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Well, we can cover more ground that way.
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We split up to cover more ground.
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We'll split up, cover more ground that way.
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That way, we can cover more ground.
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We'll cover more ground if we spread out.
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We'll cover more ground in the car.
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We can cover more ground that way.
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Let's split into teams so we can cover more ground during the hike.
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Morphology
The phrase's meaning is directly derivable from its parts: 'cover' in the sense of traverse or deal with, modified by 'more' indicating greater extent, and 'ground' as area or range. This motion/extent composition is cross-linguistically common and readily maps to both literal travel and metaphorical coverage of topics, so a B1 learner who knows the words will generally infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The phrase cover more ground comes from the simple picture of walking across land: to cover the ground is to move over more area. That's why the phrase now means to 'travel over' more distance or to 'deal with' more topics.