Travel
under your own steam
by yourself
If you do something under your own steam, you do it without anyone helping or taking you there.
Hear it in real life
Shall I drive you to the appointment?
Thanks, but I can get there under my own steam.
You don't need to pick me up - I'll get to the station under my own steam.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I'll go there with my own steam.
Say: I'll get there under my own steam.
The fixed expression uses "under," not "with," and normally includes "your own."
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
get there under your own steam; travel under your own steam
Your turn: say it out loud
You don't need to pick me up - I'll get to the station under my own steam.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
under your own steam
by yourself
“You don't need to pick me up - I'll get to the station under my own steam.”
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