It is on the anvil, under deliberation; the project is in hand. Of course, the reference is to a smithy.
“She had another arrangement on the anvil.”—Le Fawu: The House in the Churchyard.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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