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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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- vote in
- belly up
- at a loss
- burn the midnight oil
- cloud nine
- cross someone's path
- curveball
- cut and dried
- cut of one's jib
- deafening silence
- dry run
- face to face
- fair and square
- fat chance
- fine line
- fish or cut bait
- for goodness' sake
- from cover to cover
- from time to time
- get it
- give somebody what-for
- green light
- ground rules
- heart of gold
- hold somebody's hand
- in detail
- in one's cups
- in the dark
- jolly someone along
- keep an eye out
- lie through one's teeth
- lion
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- middle ground
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- nugget of truth
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- on a full stomach
- on board
- one thousand
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- price on one's head
- put one over
- put the clock back
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