English Explanatory Dictionary

on the rails

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prep_phrase
  1. In working order, functioning properly.
  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.

Word forms

on the rails
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