set in motion

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Totriggermovement or progress; to get going.Synonym:put in motion1941October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, inRailway Magazine, page469:Considerable excitement was caused on the L.M.S.R. Aberdeen line out of Perth recently when a shunting engine in Perth North goods yard, whose driver and fireman were absent, was accidentallyset in motionby a shunter and set off unattended on to the main line.2023December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, inTime‎[1]:She was seen as a gifted pop-country ingenue when, in a now infamous moment, Kanye West interrupted Swift onstage at the 2009 VMAs while she was accepting an award. The incidentset in motiona chain of events that would shape the next decade of both artists’ lives.

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