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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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- and then some
- arse about face
- carry one's weight
- center field
- common-or-garden
- cross someone's path
- deep water
- drop a dime
- dyed-in-the-wool
- elbow room
- fresh start
- get into trouble
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- have a blast
- have second thoughts
- heebie-jeebies
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- in touch
- keep quiet
- kick the bucket
- magic bullet
- nine lives
- off the mark
- oh dark thirty
- on top of the world
- one fell swoop
- out of character
- out of house and home
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- over and over
- pull one's head in
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- stand one's ground
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