set the stage for something
- set the stage for something
- set the stage for (something)
if you set the stage for something, you make it possible or likely to happen.
The purpose of that first meeting was to set the stage for future co-operation between Russia and the USA.
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set the stage for — {v. phr.} To prepare the way or situation for (an event); to make a situation ready for something to happen. * /The country s economic problems set the stage for a depression./ … Dictionary of American idioms
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