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cool one's heels
cool one's heelsTo be obliged to wait for something or be kept hanging around.Thesaurus| Verb | 1.cool one's heels - wait or pass the time aimlessly or futilely; be kept waiting; "She kicked her heels for hours at the gate of the Embassy"kick one's heelswait - stay in one place and anticipate or expect something; "I had to wait on line for an hour to get the tickets" |
cool one's heels
cool (one's) heelsTo wait, sometimes so that one becomes calmer or more composed. You need to cool your heels for a minute and stop yelling at the staff—they didn't do anything wrong. We were excited, but we had to cool our heels when the release date for the new game got pushed back.See also: cool, heelcool one's heelsWait or be kept waiting, as in I've been cooling my heels in the doctor's waiting room for at least an hour. This term originally meant to cool one's feet when they become hot from walking, and began to be used ironically for being forced to rest (or wait) in the early 1600s. See also: cool, heelcool one's heels, toTo be kept waiting. Presumably this saying comes from the fact that one’s feet become warm in the act of walking and cool off when one sits or stands still in the act of waiting. It dates from the early seventeenth century and was common enough by the 1630s to appear in several sources (William Rowley, Thomas Dekker). A century later, Henry Fielding wrote, “In this parlour Amelia cooled her heels, as the phrase is, near a quarter of an hour” (Amelia, 1752).See also: coolcool one's heels
Synonyms for cool one's heelsverb wait or pass the time aimlessly or futilelySynonymsRelated Words |