Choose the correct meaning of the idiom in capitals.
Her research on low-cost water filters BROKE NEW GROUND.

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To break new ground is to do something new that no one has done before.

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Was about farming reads "ground" literally.

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Choose the correct meaning of the idiom in capitals.Her research on low-cost water filters BROKE NEW GROUND.

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Choose the correct meaning of the idiom in capitals.
Her research on low-cost water filters BROKE NEW GROUND.