lose steam

Because you lose steam after the 40th, 50th appointment of walking a buyer and telling them the story, showing them the techniques, showing them the product — you start to sound like a broken record.

The president, who now has a TikTok account for his reelection campaign, doesn’t talk much about that whole thing after signing the bill; neither do his party’s supporters, who at this point believe this anti-TikTok push will lose steam just like the others.

“Maybe there was an idea that over time, the movement would lose steam, or it was just like a campus thing or it was like a far-left sort of protest movement,” said Maurice Mitchell, the national director of the Working Families Party, a progressive group that has often been more focused on domestic issues.

He predicted it would lose steam in the Senate.

Olowalu residents fear that the search for a permanent site will lose steam once the material gets its initial burial.