get up steam
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Not until three nights later, when not only the press and people of Britain but his own party reacted so violently to the seizure, did Mr. Chamberlain get up steam.
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He wanted war contracts canceled and settled soon, war plants cleared so that peacetime production can get up steam.
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Last week, with the Navy offering to chip in, it looked as if the shipping program was finally ready to get up steam.
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With the present steamer, it takes from two to five minutes to get up steam.
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And Mataafa having communicated Knappe’s letter, the example of the Germans was on all hands exactly followed; the consuls hastened on board their respective war-ships, and these began to get up steam.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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