Complete Definition of "run out of steam"

English

Idiom
run out of steam

  1. To run out of energy; to run out of motivation.

#: After climbing six flights of stairs she found she had run out of steam and had to sit down.
#: After two of the team left the project had rather run out of steam.

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Finnish: väsähtää

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