in train
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English
[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- In progress, underway.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 278:
- Choiseul's dismissal threw Paris into a spin, not least because a major political crisis was already in train.
- 2020 January 2, David Clough, “How InterCity came back from the brink”, in Rail, page 69:
- At least the cost reviews were bearing some fruit. BREL and Mechanical Engineering Department charges had been cut by £47m, the only pity being the savings had been put in train so late in the day.
References
[edit]- “in train”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.