VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

In the Pipeline

Meaning:

Being prepared for the marketplace, being worked on

Examples:

  • Several national workshops are in the pipeline (Gambia, Guinea and the Philippines).
  • Lecture tours to several other countries are in the pipeline.
  • The problem is a companion piece and we don't have anything in the pipeline.
  • Had any specific legislation been adopted, or was it in the pipeline?
  • Not with what we got in the pipeline.
  • Then why was it put in the pipeline?
  • Local elections have been successfully held in two districts and some important pieces of legislation are in the pipeline.
  • My think tank now has a little something in the pipeline.
  • Googlephone, labeled Google the phone, it seems in the pipeline.
  • We found him under that hatch in the pipeline.