"go through the gears" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes through the gears",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going through the gears",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went through the gears",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone through the gears",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> through the gears"
      },
      "expansion": "go through the gears (third-person singular simple present goes through the gears, present participle going through the gears, simple past went through the gears, past participle gone through the gears)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 7, Gary Rose, “Manchester City 5-0 Huddersfield Town”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "The visitors kept out their opponents for 33 minutes with some determined defending but City always looked capable of going through the gears and they opened the scoring when Foden drove home from inside the box after Alvarez's shot was blocked.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To gain momentum; to get up to speed."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_through_the_gears-en-verb-FWzY7s71",
      "links": [
        [
          "gain",
          "gain"
        ],
        [
          "momentum",
          "momentum"
        ],
        [
          "up to speed",
          "up to speed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To gain momentum; to get up to speed."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "go through the gears"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes through the gears",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going through the gears",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went through the gears",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone through the gears",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> through the gears"
      },
      "expansion": "go through the gears (third-person singular simple present goes through the gears, present participle going through the gears, simple past went through the gears, past participle gone through the gears)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 7, Gary Rose, “Manchester City 5-0 Huddersfield Town”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "The visitors kept out their opponents for 33 minutes with some determined defending but City always looked capable of going through the gears and they opened the scoring when Foden drove home from inside the box after Alvarez's shot was blocked.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To gain momentum; to get up to speed."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gain",
          "gain"
        ],
        [
          "momentum",
          "momentum"
        ],
        [
          "up to speed",
          "up to speed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To gain momentum; to get up to speed."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "go through the gears"
}