Meanings
- Heavily occupied, or busily involved in an important activity.
We won't be able to meet next week as we will be in the throes of moving offices. Perhaps the week after will be better.
2 more examples
By 1922, when The Railway Magazine attained its Silver Jubilee, the railways were in the throes of grouping, the Act for which had been passed the previous year, and which came fully into force in 1923.
1957 July 28, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 496The inconveniences that must be endured before the modernisation plan can come into action may be seen at Coventry, where since August the station has been in the throes of rebuilding.
1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Part, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101
Translations
German inmitten, mitten in
- inmittenbusily involved in an important activity
- mitten inbusily involved in an important activity
- voll beschäftigt mitbusily involved in an important activity
Russian в разгаре, погруженный
- в разгаре (v razgare)busily involved in an important activity
- погруженный (pogružennyj)busily involved in an important activity
Spanish en pleno, inmerso en
- en plenobusily involved in an important activity
- inmerso enbusily involved in an important activity
- sumido enbusily involved in an important activity
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