step/move up a gear
UK informalto start to do something better, especially in sports, in a way that is easy to see:
After a disappointing first half, United moved up a gear and took control of the game.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- be cooking idiom
- betterment
- develop
- go great guns idiom
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- grow out of sth
- have come a long way idiom
- rise
- shape
- simmer
- speciation
- spread your wings idiom
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
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