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chug along
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chug along 
1. Lit. [for a train engine] to labor along slowly. (Steam locomotives made the sound "chug, chug.") The train chugged along to the top of the hill.
2. Fig. to move along at a steady pace. We chugged along for two hours but finally made it home.
See also: along


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LANCASTER -- Seventy-year-old tractors gleam as if they just rolled out of the factory and antique one-cylinder engines chug slowly at the Rusty Relics' Antelope Valley Fair display.
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The ONA said it was time to accelerate current health reforms, and strengthen public hospitals, community health, access to pharmaceutical chugs, and healthy living.
 
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