back in harness
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Kay, played by Nicole Kidman, is newly back in harness as the chief medical officer of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a job she’d held before being pushed out some unspecified years earlier.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
“If I get back in harness, it’s not just about singing, it’s about promotion, it’s about playing, it’s about the radio, politics, business, blah, blah, blah,” he said, with a wave of his hand.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2024
Pedro Pinto is back in harness and that means it’s time for the draw, after a video segue of the clubs still left in the competition, featuring some Prodigy-lite music.
From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2022
With Roberts back in harness, it came down to a choice between O'Driscoll and Jonathan Davies for the number 13 shirt.
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2013
I've been full of bravado with Paula, telling her how soon I was going to be back in harness again; cock-sure and domineering as ever, so that she'd better make hay while the sun shone.
From Mary Wollaston by Webster, Henry Kitchell
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