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make headway

Idioms  

  1. Advance, make progress, as in We haven't made any headway with this project. This expression, first recorded in 1887, uses headway in the nautical sense of “a vessel's forward movement.”

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The Chinese plug-in hybrid specialist is grappling with flagging sales while it tries to make headway in the highly competitive full-electric market.

From The Wall Street Journal

At that point, Cadillac already had around 300 employees and had made headway on its aerodynamic design.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her remarks came a day after Iran and the US said they had made headway in talks taking place in Geneva about Tehran's nuclear programme.

From BBC

Do you think global leaders at Davos will be able to make headway on difficult issues given current political and economic complexities?

From The Wall Street Journal

Some Nigerians welcomed U.S. intervention, citing their own government’s failure to make headway against terrorism and banditry since the kidnapping of the Chibok girls more than a decade ago.

From The Wall Street Journal

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