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French term or phrase:
Prendre le train en marche
English translation:
Getting in on the action
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Katarina Peters
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Does this mean jumping on the bandwagon, and if so can anyone think of a less pejorative way of saying it?
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Katarina Peters
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join the movement
less formal would be: get in on the action, get on the bandwagon... but I'm sure someone will come up with a typical expression that eludes me at the moment...
of course, more context would help...
of course, more context would help...
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Comment: "getting in on the action"
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join halfway through
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Oxford-Hachette. Some context would be nice!
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jump on a moving train
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"Jump on a moving train" seems a good metaphorical image that works just as well in English as in French, but you give no context, so it's hard to be sure. "Jump on the bandwagon" or "joint halfway through" might also be fine - but without the context, who knows?
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Take the moving train
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Implies joining oneself to a person or organization that is going somewhere.
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get into the stream
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As someone has said, context would be good since, as there is not, I don't think, a standard English equivalent, it will be a horses-for-courses question.
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Go with the flow might work. Might.
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Go with the flow might work. Might.
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to take advantage of....
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... of... whatever the context is - the situation, the progress made by...
just another suggestion, I don't disagree with what's already been proposed
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If you wanted to be very positive, you could even envisage
"building on" .... whatever it is.....
just another suggestion, I don't disagree with what's already been proposed
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Note added at 38 mins (2007-03-31 16:34:30 GMT)
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If you wanted to be very positive, you could even envisage
"building on" .... whatever it is.....
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get on board/getting on board
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This would be more neutral and non-pejorative, I think.
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Jerome Elhaik
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Emma Paulay
: Yes, but it's often associated with joining a team so may not work in all contexts
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go with the flow
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perhaps might fit sometimes ?
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Make hay while the sun shines
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is one way of looking at it. There's even a Google hit :-)
... (se joindre à une action/une idée déjà en cours ) : prendre le train en marche ... To make hay while the sun shines (profiter sans tarder d'une occasion ...
www.jenetpeers.co.uk/idiomes.htm
... (se joindre à une action/une idée déjà en cours ) : prendre le train en marche ... To make hay while the sun shines (profiter sans tarder d'une occasion ...
www.jenetpeers.co.uk/idiomes.htm
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