From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhelp something ↔ along phrasal verbto make a process or activity happen more quickly or easily She asked a few questions to help the conversation along. → help→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
help along• Every building is different, so when you start a new building the erector actually helps you along.• I mean leadership in the way that they understand what to do in a close game and maybe help us along.• I helped this along by taking some Flocor from an established filter and placing it in the vat filter.• But the thriller element does no damage to the message and helps the story along for even the most committed viewer.• The other key characteristic of the even-toed ungulates that would have helped this process along is the structure of the feet.• To help the doggies along, Mercer sounds a horn that emits an ear-piercing wail from his plane.• The priesthood built itself and if we help it along we are only following the line of least resistance.• To help things along we provide our usual framework of social activities, sharing costs between survivors. 