something on one's side. jump the rails (or track)

Vanity Fair

"Donald Trump is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party for the past ten, fifteen, twenty years. What surprised me was the degree to which those tactics and rhetoric completely jumped the rails." —President Obama (via The New Yorker)

Four days before Election Day, David Remnick asked President Obama, “Do you feel confident about Tuesday?” “Nope,” he responded.

Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency

Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and America’s future.

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盧比奧讚揚黃之鋒給他留下深刻印象、是個有思想的年輕人，代表了香港的未來。臨別時他還贈言黃之鋒：「Time is on your side.（時間在你們這一邊。）」

have something on one's side (or something is on one's side)

PHRASE

• Have something operating to one's advantage:

  ‘now he had time on his side, Thomas relaxed a little’

jump the rails (or track)

PHRASE

• (of a train) become dislodged from the track:

  ‘the engine jumped the rails on its maiden run’

  ‘it's an action movie so fast it threatens to jump the rails’