Wiktionary
make ground
vb. (context idiomatic English) gain ground; make progress.
Usage examples of "make ground".
We could only make ground by following a zigzag pattern, and it took us well over an hour to cover the last mile before the entrance to the pass.
But a biological-mechanical contraption, such as that up there, might make ground for understanding.
To never be excited, to not come charging in, to be leisurely and deliberate and to make ground for decency.