put\ on\ the\ map

put\ on\ the\ map
v. phr.
To make (a place) well known.

The first successful climb of Mount Matterhorn put Zermatt, Switzerland, on the map.

Shakespeare put his hometown of Stratford-on-Avon on the map.


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