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August 02, 2006

To pave the way

One of the pet peeves of the editors and writers is to write 'to pave the path for (something).' Good alliteration, but a bad idiom. The phrase, in fact, is ‘to pave the way.’ The norms of the English language say that no idioms should be changed unless they make a good pun.
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