'gears in motion' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to the beginning of an activity or process. For example, "The board meeting was successful in putting the gears in motion for the new marketing campaign."
To pursue a career as a composer, you must not only write music but also set institutional gears in motion, win over the reluctant, promote yourself, bend reality to your vision.
When the Troubled Asset Relief Program of the Treasury Department handed over $125 billion in taxpayer money to nine banks a month ago, they were supposed to lend to small businesses, home buyers and other worthy borrowers to keep the economy's gears in motion.
Page 6 A Nicer Gordon Ramsay? 4 Sunday Business NO STRINGS ATTACHED To Bailout, and It Shows When the Treasury gave billions of taxpayers' dollars to the nation's banks, it asked them to lend to small businesses, home buyers and other worthy borrowers to keep the economy's gears in motion.
Well, here are a few steps that can help you effectively present your thoughts and (hopefully) get the gears in motion.
Weed was the lubrication that helped get the creative gears in motion.
I want Pascal to move into her new office so we can get the gears in motion on these potential cinematic gems.
Have the gears started turning yet on Season 5? We start shooting in August, but writing-wise, the gears are in motion.
She said the fact that there was no public notice of Amazon coming into Long Island City before the gears were in motion, and that the brand had a history as a decidedly anti-union company, made her dread their arrival.
As each visitor passes through, massive gears are set in motion that push two beams out, with some force, against the gallery walls.
Then we moved on to some youtube video and forgot about it, but the gears were already in motion.
It's the difference between the lever that sets the gears of government in motion and the wrench that grinds them to a halt.
