on the rails

on the rails
phrasal
1. : progressing satisfactorily or rapidly : well under way

got the joint European defense effort on the railsChristian Science Monitor

2. : on the proper course

weak men would apparently take to crime who had previously been kept on the rails by a certain balance existing in society — Herbert Butterfield


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