get up steam
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They told me it would go 400 miles on one tank of water and they had a flash-firing system worked out where they could get up steam in less than half a minute ...
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Too soon to get up steam about Berlin, he told everyone.
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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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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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Presently our frying-pans sputtered and the huge coffee-pot began to get up steam.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace
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