runaway train

collocation in English

meaningsofrunawayandtrain

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runaway
adjective
uk
/ˈrʌn.ə.weɪ/us
/ˈrʌn.ə.weɪ/
having escaped or run away ...
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train
noun
uk
/treɪn/us
/treɪn/
a railway engine connected to carriages for carrying people or to wheeled containers for ...
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(Definition ofrunawayandtrainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The loss of mine, machinery, and manpower in colliery explosions released a 'runawaytrain' of social progress.
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Let us take, first, the allegation of the "runawaytrain".
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It was arunawaytrainand it took some getting under control.
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We have been trying to do the equivalent of stopping arunawaytrain.
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If there is any talk of arunawaytrain, that train can have started to run away only under the administration of the party opposite.
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Unless the brakes are applied soon, by whatever means, industry and commerce could find themselves on arunawaytrainin the rates that they have to pay.
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No one must feel as if they are in a carriage being towed along by a kind ofrunawaytrain.
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Therunawaytrainis now under control.
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It strikes me at the moment that enlargement is like arunawaytrainthat no one knows how to, or wants to stop.
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There was norunawaytrain.
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Therunawaytrainpassed 50 m behind him moving at highway speed.
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It is an action thriller involving skiers trapped on arunawaytrainspeeding down a mountain.
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He blamed arunawaytrainof innuendo in the news media for his legal travails.
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So after a time, you get so that it's almost like arunawaytrain.
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Without saying another word, the pair continues down the subway tunnels towards therunawaytrain.
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Arunawaytrainat the turn-of-the-century in 1890 destroyed the second station.
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Unfortunately the driver of therunawaytrain, who had stayed at the controls in an attempt to bring it to a halt, later died from his injuries.
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The track was not equipped with signals to alert the rail traffic controller to the presence of arunawaytrain.
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Is it not a fact that there is in existence 80 year-old cabling; underground signals which are 40 years old; breakdowns; runaway trains; and that commuters are desperately inconvenienced?
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The locomotives were on always the south (downhill) end of the train to prevent runaway trains.
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