by/in leaps and bounds
C2 If someone or something gets better by/in leaps and bounds, he, she, or it improves very quickly:
Her Spanish has come on (= improved) in leaps and bounds this year.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Becoming better
- alive
- come alive idiom
- come along
- consolidate
- ennoble
- move
- on the up (and up) idiom
- perk
- perk up
- pick
- pickup
- rally
- shape
- straighten up
- turn over a new leaf idiom
- turn sth around
- turn sth round
- turn the corner idiom
- warm
- warm up
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