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on the rails

1 informal Behaving or functioning in a normal or regulated way: he is determined to get the club back on the rails...
  • There was such a big change in Laura after she became ill that I just wanted to do something to get her life back on the rails.
  • But they do still run an outreach centre for drug and alcohol addicts, and have been successful in putting several lives back on the rails.
  • We need to get this company back on the rails before it outsmarts itself into bankruptcy.
2(Of a racehorse or jockey) in a position on the racetrack nearest the inside fence: Duffield got himself jammed in on the rails...
  • But he surged to victory on the rails from a furlong out.
  • His mount looked beaten coming into the final furlong as Indigo Cat took it up on the rails but dug deep to challenge again.
  • Hills settles the horse on the rails behind pacemaker Shiny but finds himself boxed in and unable to get a run.
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