to have a long way to go
O time melhorou, mas ainda tem muito chão pela frente.
The team has improved, but it still has a long way to go.
Aulete gives chão a figurative, popular sense of the distance already covered or still to cover, with the example ainda temos muito chão pela frente.
Source: Aulete — chão.
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