It took nearly thirty minutes to get up a full head of steam so that the locomotive could start moving.
2. Fig. to develop sufficient energy, enthusiasm, commitment, or determination to undertake something. •It's nearly noon before I can get up a full head of steam and accomplish something.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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