in the swim

[in the swim] {adj. phr.}

Doing the same things that other people are doing; following the fashion (as in business or social affairs); busy with what most people are doing.

* /Jim found some college friends at the lake that summer, and soon was in the swim of things./

* /Mary went to New York with introductions to writers and artists, and that winter she was quite in the swim./

Contrast: OUT OF THE SWIM.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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