in full swing

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

in full swing

1. Proceeding fully, quickly, or completely; thoroughly begun and in progress.

   We arrived an hour late and found the event already in full swing.

   • 1964 June 16, “Surprise Strike Stops Traffic On 6 Railroads”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 3:

     The harvest is now in full swing in the Great Plains and efforts are being made to rush the grain from the fields to the country elevators and then to the large terminals, such as Kansas City, Houston, Galveston and New Orleans.

Synonyms

• in full gear

Translations

proceeding fully

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正全面展开, 全力 (zh) (quánlì)进行 (zh) (jìnxíng)中

• Czech: v plném proudu
• Finnish: täydessä vauhdissa
• French: battre son plein (fr)
• Italian: in pieno svolgimento
• Latvian: pilnā sparā
• Romanian: în toi
• Russian: в разгаре (v razgare), на полную катушку (ru) (na polnuju katušku)

See also

• go with a swing
• swing of things