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set the scene for
Idioms and Phrases
Also, set the stage for . Provide the underlying basis or background for, make likely or inevitable, as in Their fights about money set the scene for a divorce , or The comptroller's assessment of the firm's finances set the stage for a successful bond issue . These expressions allude to arranging a play's actors and properties on a theatrical stage. The first term dates from the late 1700s, the variant from the late 1800s.Example Sentences
Although tariffs, tax cuts and deregulation could boost the US economy in the short term, it could set the scene for an inflationary boom followed by a bust, it said.
Paul Greaney KC, prosecuting, told the judge that although the jury did not convict Wellings of manslaughter, the court should sentence him on the basis his coercive abuse of Miss Dawes "set the scene for her death".
The results from this poll set the scene for the official counting of votes which starts at 09:00 local time on Saturday and is expected to continue across the weekend.
The Hanley moment happened almost in slow motion, but of course, it needed the preamble of a rousing Scotland comeback to set the scene for its full horror.
It's likely that would set the scene for more of what we're used to - a standoff between Holyrood and Westminster.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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