Brewer's: Anvil

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 Fanu: The House in the Churchyard.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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