| 单词 | on the heels of |
| 释义 | on the heels ofAlso, hard on the heels of. Directly behind, immediately following, as in Mom's birthday comes on the heels of Mother's Day, or Hard on the heels of the flood there was a tornado. The hard in the variant acts as an intensifier, giving it the sense of “close on the heels of”. [Early 1800s] Also see at one's heels. Words nearby on the heels ofon the eve of, on the face of it, on the fly, on the fritz, on the go, on the heels of, on the Hill, on the horizon, on the horns of a dilemma, on the hour, on the house The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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