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under steam

• (of a machine) being operated by steam.
• "the only beam engine working under steam in Cornwall"

under one's own steam

• (with reference to travel) without assistance from others.
• "we're going to have to get there under our own steam"
Similar: unaided, unassisted, without help, without assistance, independently, by oneself, by one's own efforts, on one's own two feet,
Opposite: with help,


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