like a train

English

A massive train moves with great momentum.

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Prepositional phrase

like a train

1. (simile, UK) With unstoppable momentum.
   • 1949, Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell, Karamojo safari, page 85:

     I could not get a shot in. They turned in my direction and came like a train. I stopped the first and the others spilled round him at a frightful speed. I was in the eddy of the first beast, as it were. I got in another shot at an angle behind the ear and down he went.

   • 1994, Sheila Garrigue, The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito, →ISBN, page 17:

     "That tide's coming in like a train, and if the Raider breaks up, the currents will drag them under!" Her voice was desperate. "I don't see 'ow anyone can get to them!" It was true.

   • 2005, Alan Ball, Playing Extra Time, →ISBN, page 221:

     Aspinall was suspended for the first three games but we started like a train. We took ten points from the first twelve, beating Leeds 4—0 at home with Hilaire and Blake coming back, and we went to the top of the league.