on one's tod vs under one's own steam

on one's tod

prep
  • on one's own, alone 

under one's own steam

prep
  • Using one's own resources; independently, unaided. 

  • At one's own initiative; of one's own accord, unbidden, unprompted. 

  • Of the movement of a locomotive or a watercraft: by means of the power of its own engines (originally steam engines), rather than pulled or pushed by another vehicle. 

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