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Idioms and Phrases

Start something moving, give impetus to something, as in A press conference set the new project in motion . It is also put as set the wheels in motion , as in Let's set the wheels in motion for the new library wing . This idiom dates from about 1800. It was preceded by put in motion , which dates from the mid-1600s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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