Meaning of on the rails | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In working order, functioning properly.
   idiomatic
2. In a train or on trains.
3. Racing toward the inside, near the fence that bounds the track.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, rail.

Examples

“To The wineplace.com and Chris, Marshy and Chris for keeping me on the rails.”

“Logic is nothing other than methods we have⟳ learned that keep⟳ thinking on the rails.”

“Menin Road got the offensive back on the rails but conditions, which had been deplorable before, favoured the outcome.”

“For several Saturdays after he'd seen a film about men who lived on the rails, he left home with a Spam sandwich in a paper bag, a compass and a ball of twine (though he wasn't sure why he included the twine).”

“And then over two months of hitch-hiking' and trekking in Banff and Jasper National Parks, and a few hundred miles on the rails.”

“Nevertheless, he loved traveling on the rails and became a lifelong railroad buff.”

“The larger the wheels, the less will any dust, twigs, or inequalities on the rails affect⟳ them.”

“Now we lounged on the decks all the time, feet up on the rails while a string band played for us.”

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