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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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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Too soon to get up steam about Berlin, he told everyone.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Right," said the captain, with a determined nod, and set the engineers to work at once to get up steam.
From White Fire by John Oxenham
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