tread the boards

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Act on the stage, as in Her main ambition was to tread the boards in a big city . This idiom uses boards in the sense of “a theatrical stage,” a usage dating from the mid-1700s. It dates from the mid-1800s but was preceded by the idiom tread the stage , first recorded in 1691.

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