Talk:work up a head of steam

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work up a head of steam[edit]

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Move to head of steam? Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary has lemma at head of steam, for example. --Downunder 23:20, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

At COCA only 3 of the 28 instances of "head of steam" are with forms of "work up". In such a modern corpus very few of the 28 instances are literal. "Head of steam" appears in NPs as subject, object of preposition, as well as object of verbs. Therefore, yes, IMHO, more clearly than most such moves. The conservative, cautious approach is to tag it with {{move}} and wait a decent interval. DCDuring TALK 00:19, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Moved. DAVilla 15:33, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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