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prepare the way

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prepare the way (for somebody/something)
to create an opportunity for something to happen His comments prepared the way for the two organizations to work together. Her election prepared the way for me and others like me.
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I had had confidential agents trickling through the country some time, whose office was to undermine knighthood by imperceptible degrees, and to gnaw a little at this and that and the other superstition, and so prepare the way gradually for a better order of things.
But you must have a hansom this minute if you mean to prepare the way with those notes this afternoon
 
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