lead the way

Definitions

1. 1

   To proceed first in a journey, procession, etc., so that others can follow.

2. 2

   To act as a guide or pioneer.

   • The native-born and the "naturalised" locomotives have been giving way to the standardised types, of which the L.M.S.R. class "5" 4-6-0 has led the way and has penetrated the furthest.
   • The Americans led the way in the postwar years, but UK, Continental European and Japanese companies have followed […]
   • Network Rail's East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP) should lead the way for a national digital signalling programme and other major schemes under the new Great British Railways public body.

The neighborhood

• antonymbring up the rearantonym(s) of “to go first”