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To progress; to make progress.
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The renovation is coming along nicely, and should be ready within a month.
Submitted on February 13, 2012
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- come up
- finish off
- knock up
- play up
- ramp up
- round down
- rub out
- run around
- start up
- stick out
- take over
- at one's beck and call
- bad joke
- bend the truth
- cross someone's path
- dead duck
- dig deep
- dry run
- even money
- false step
- food chain
- give somebody what-for
- grunt work
- hang out one's shingle
- heebie-jeebies
- hem and haw
- horse's ass
- how's tricks
- in its infancy
- in order
- in the works
- kick ass
- lion's share
- morning, noon and night
- muckety muck
- not half bad
- number one
- nuts and bolts
- on the horn
- one-off
- out of one's depth
- out of order
- out to lunch
- party pooper
- piffy on a rock bun
- put down roots
- red letter day
- salad years
- same old story
- shape up
- shore up
- smack of
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- spill one's guts
- spruce up
- sure of oneself
- take a gander
- take it easy
- take one's time
- take the lead
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