move along

1) PHR-V-ERG If someone, especially a police officer, tells you to move along, or if they move you along, they tell you to stop standing in a particular place and to go somewhere else.

[V P] Curious pedestrians were ordered to move along...

[V n P] Our officers are moving them along and not allowing them to gather in large groups. [Also V P n (not pron)]

2) PHR-V-ERG If a process moves along or if something moves it along, it progresses.

[V P] Research tends to move along at a slow but orderly pace...

[V n P] Delay is part of the normal process, but I hope we can move things along.