IdiomDaily Life
English
Englishtrain of thought
Meaning: A course of reasoning; a succession of connected ideas.
Example: “The doorbell made me lose my train of thought.”
Equivalents in other languages
Spanish: írsele la onda Literally: To go away the wave
Origin: "Train" here means a series or procession, an older sense than the railway. Thomas Hobbes wrote of a "train of thoughts" in Leviathan (1651).
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