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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