to put on the map
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- phrasal verb
:
dar a conocer
- The new restaurant is expected to put the town on the map as a culinary destination.
- really put on the map
- help put on the map
- put the city on the map
This can put you on the map if you're good enough.
- This can put you on the map if you're good enough.
- The two books that have, you know, crush it, which really put me on the map, right.
- If you read Crush It, my first book will put me on the map.
- Like you, you have to really want to put Unionville on the map.
- But he finally writes this thing, the Raven, and that really puts him on the map.
- So that was his first major accomplishment and it, you know, put him on the map amongst in theoretical physics.
- The comeback to return, that's what puts you on the map if you're feeling broken now.
- And demand That's something that Hegel is putting on the map front and center.
- So you have two brands that are very popular, both Italian, the same kind of car that put each on the map, same era.
Examples
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This can put you on the map if you're good enough.
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Something that could put me right back on the map.
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As well as putting our town on the map.
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You guys are gonna put Window Rock on the map.
Fiction book (2001) -
I promised to put this place on the map.
Fiction book (1991) -
Listen, we are trying to put Detroit on the map.
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Come on down, Judy, and put this town on the map!
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This stunt is really going to put the academy on the map.
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You'll put this museum on the map.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have finally succeeded in putting Midwood on the map!
Synonyms
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To make an idea, activity, or subject known and liked by many people
To make something well known by giving it a lot of media attention
Antonyms
How Famous
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal meanings of 'put' + 'on' + 'map' create a clear spatial image (placing something visibly on a map) that metaphorically extends to making a place/person prominent or known. This metaphorical leap is plausible and partially guessable, but it depends on conventionalized figurative use, so a B1 learner who knows the words may not reliably derive the precise sense 'make well-known' without prior exposure.
Etymology
Put on the map comes from the image of adding a town to a map. When people wrote a place on a map, others could find and talk about it. So, to put something on the map means to make it 'well-known'.