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Move on   /muv ɑn/   Listen
Move on

verb
1.
Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense.  Synonyms: advance, go on, march on, pass on, progress.






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"Move on" Quotes from Famous Books



... positive and negative acts, the good and the bad, the wise and the foolish, the right and the wrong impulses, the gain and loss in achievement. He should strike a balance, and if he sees that the bad, deterrent and backward things in the lead he should resolve to get a move on himself. ...
— Dollars and Sense • Col. Wm. C. Hunter

... same time I have been only a dilettante eater of opium; eight years' practice even, with the single precaution of allowing sufficient intervals between every indulgence, has not been sufficient to make opium necessary to me as an article of daily diet. But now comes a different era. Move on, if you please, reader, to 1813. In the summer of the year we have just quitted I had suffered much in bodily health from distress of mind connected with a very melancholy event. This event, being no ways related to the subject now ...
— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day

... thing that satisfies us, and we can not abide resting with the thing that does not satisfy us. We are of the prods in the world, the bit of acid that is thrown upon it to test it, the spur which makes the lazy thing move on. ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

... of higher education. A great many American families live in the ideal of sending their boys and girls to college. This leads them to feel a difference between themselves and the larger number of people who do not care for higher education, and who discover no energies in themselves that move on the path of learning. The result is that their worship is narrow; churches become culture clubs: the preachers are exponents of literature: the service of worship is a liturgy of ...
— The Evolution of the Country Community - A Study in Religious Sociology • Warren H. Wilson

... now, but when he gits to bawlin', you ain't a gwine to make no mistake 'bout his bein' nuffin' 'tal but a cry-baby," she continued, preparing to move on. ...
— What Two Children Did • Charlotte E. Chittenden


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