To join as one
It means that a nation is coming into it's power.This isn't an idiom. It's a metaphor comparing the nation to some sort of bird just spreading its wings to fly. You can tell the difference because you can figure out the meaning by context - idioms make no sense even if you try to define each word.To spread one's wings means to begin to fly, as a baby bird does when it leaves the nest. So "we...spread our wings as a new nation" means we began to govern ourselves, to see what being a new nation was like, how it felt to be a new nation.
Oh say can you see by the daws early light
by wind
because the monkeys like it
The Greeks, on the whole, were not migratory people. If you are asking why they spread out, that answer is simple: New lands means new opportunities.
The Greeks, on the whole, were not migratory people. If you are asking why they spread out, that answer is simple: New lands means new opportunities.
The TWA Building by Eero Saarinen at the JFK Airport in New York looks like a bird with spread wings just about to lift off the ground.
The Nation is new because we are smarter and there is no slavery.
New Nation was created in 1996.
Alouette, deployer l'aile........its in french and means "lark (as in the bird) deploy your wings.
They sought Manifest Destiny. A nation that spread from Sea to Shining Sea, and nothing less would satisfy them.
Unfortunately not, once the mantis has wings it means that it is and adult and not a wingless nymph ("baby"), once it has moulted into its last skin it will seldom moult again, thus not having a new skin to grow and repair.