I’m not as smart as I thought I was, and I would think I could make headway* on this one, but I still seem to be losing ground.
*This expression, first recorded in 1887, uses headway in the nautical sense of “a vessel’s forward movement.”
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I’m not as smart as I thought I was, and I would think I could make headway* on this one, but I still seem to be losing ground.
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