lay the foundation(s) of/for
C2 to produce the basic ideas or structures from which something much larger develops:
The two leaders have laid the foundations of a new era in cooperation between their countries.
He helped to lay the foundations of English drama.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Imagining and conceiving
- a reach of the imagination idiom
- assume
- blue-sky
- conceivable
- conceive
- conceptualize
- dream
- feel
- fertile
- fertility
- foundation
- mind
- picture
- presumption
- put
- put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
- reckon
- riot
- run riot idiom
- suspicion
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