Noun
a detailed plan or explanation to guide you in setting standards or determining a course of action
a map showing roads (for automobile travel)
Source: WordNetI am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear. Philip Roth
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. Rita Mae Brown
The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg. Bob Woodward
People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul. Cassandra Clare
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. Meryl Streep
A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future. Alexa Von Tobel