The idiom “in full swing” refers to something in active motion or progress, including physical objects, music, and immaterial processes. It can also be used to describe something that swings or moves rapidly, widely, or significantly, with alternative phrases such as “swinging all over the place” or “swinging wildly.”
The English idiom, “in full swing,” refers to something that is in active motion, established, or in active progress. This phrase can be applied to physical objects or immaterial processes. There is a more technical definition and several colloquialisms based on different metaphors for the physical activity of swing.
Some of the more technical definitions for “in full swing” include a description of someone swaying back and forth. This phrase can also describe inanimate objects that rock back and forth from an applied motion. Here the phrase is used more literally to actually describe the physical process, such as a pendulum or even a child’s swing.
Other definition of “full swing” is referring to music. A band that is in the middle of a rhythmic song can be said to be in full swing. This designation generally refers to music that is rhythmically coherent and in its highest tempo moments or fullest instrumental phases.
Other uses of “in full swing” involve immaterial processes. For example, someone who is observing a volatile market might describe “swinging” stock prices that are rising or falling rapidly. Here the processes of increasing or decreasing, especially as they are represented on a graph, can be similar to an oscillating movement. When the stock market fluctuates widely in both directions, an observer might say it is “in full swing.”
In addition to this largely literal phrase, other alternatives can be used to talk about something that swings or moves rapidly, widely, or significantly. Some English speakers might also say that someone or something is “swinging all over the place” or “swinging wildly”. Some more descriptive speakers might say that something or something is “swinging like the devil,” which draws on a larger set of idioms around the idea of the “devil” in the Judeo-Christian religion. Others might say that a person or object “swings like crazy”; here, the word “around” represents the general meaning of the movement and “like crazy” described the movement as exaggerated or more extreme than usual.
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