in train

English

Prepositional phrase

in train

1. In progress, underway.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 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

• “in train”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Nitrian, nitrian, trainin'