spread your wings
to use your abilities for the first time in your life to do new and exciting things:
She'd been working for the same company for 15 years and it was time to leave and spread her wings.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- be cooking idiom
- betterment
- develop
- go great guns idiom
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- grow out of sth
- have come a long way idiom
- rise
- shape
- simmer
- speciation
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
- streak ahead
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