单词 | under one's own steam |
释义 | under one's own steamIndependently, without help, as in For two years I published the quarterly newsletter under my own steam. This expression uses steam in the sense of “driving power,” as in a steam engine. [Early 1900s] Words nearby under one's own steamunder one's belt, under one's breath, under one's feet, under one's hat, under one's nose, under one's own steam, under one's skin, underpaid, under pain of, underpainting, underpants The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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