steaming ahead
Advancing with momentum
Steaming ahead means making rapid, determined progress toward a goal.
The image comes from steamships or locomotives moving forward at full power.
A company steams ahead with expansion plans, or a project steams ahead despite setbacks.
The phrase suggests momentum that's difficult to stop.
- accelerationRate velocity changes
- making headwayAchieving forward progress
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
- ambitionDesire for achievement
- advancementForward movement or promotion
breakthrough · perseverance · engine · innovation · success · unstoppable · grit · propulsion · resolve · growth · tenacity · diligence · onwards · onward and upward · improvement · pushing through · navigation · boiler
steaming aheadretreating
Moving back from advance
stalling · falling behind · grinding to a halt · reversing · backsliding
steaming aheadstagnating
Ceasing to develop
languishing · floundering · drifting · sputtering · flagging
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