under one's own steam

[under one's own steam] {adv. phr.}, {informal} By one's own efforts; without help.

* /The boys got to Boston under their own steam and took a bus the rest of the way./

* /We didn't think he could do it, but Bobby finished his homework under his own steam./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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