sail in
UK— phrasal verb with sail uk/seɪl/us/seɪl/verb
also sail into sth to start an activity enthusiastically:
The children sailed into the pile of cakes and in minutes the cakes were gone.
Mary sailed in with a story about her first job.
also sail into sb informal to attack someone using words:
The president sailed into her opponents with an angry speech.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- ground
- incipient
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick-start
- strike
- swing into action idiom
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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