boldly go where no man has gone before

present singular third person boldly goes where no man has gone before · participle present boldly going where no man has gone before · past boldly went where no man has gone before · participle past boldly gone where no man has gone before

1. idiomaticTo break new ground.

   E-Racer Based loosely upon one of the original Rutan designs, the airplane goes where no man has gone before. In the first place, the composite canard machine is the first known example of the Rutan Long-EZ clones to have

   1998 April, Budd Davisson, “Skyburners”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 165, page 68

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   While Strauss would not exactly be boldly going where no man has gone before if he led England to victories this year in away Test series against Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India, he set foot on an airbus to Dubai knowing that 2012 represents the last great examination of his side.

   2012 January 2, Paul Newman, “Tough Trek ahead but Strauss' men know winning in Asia is the final frontier”, in the Mail online

   These were the voyages of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton and Mawson, Nordenskjold, Borchgrevink, de Gerlache and von Drygalski, Filchner, Shirase, Bruce and Bull, national heroes most of them, who boldly went where no man had gone before.

   1990, John Stewart, Antarctica: an encyclopedia: Volume 1