dead in or an animal's tracks

dead in someone's or an animal's tracks

Fig. exactly where someone or something is at the moment; at this instant. (This does not usually have anything to do with death. The phrase is often used with stop.) Her unkind words stopped me dead in my tracks. When I heard the rattlesnake, I stopped dead in my tracks.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Crosby	['krɔ:zbi]
Ursella	UR-sə-lə	English (Rare)
Odharnait	-	Irish
Donata	do-NAH-tah (Italian)	Italian, Late Roman
Ad	AHT	Dutch, Limburgish
Antonia	ahn-TO-nyah (Italian, Spanish), an-TON-ee-ə (English), ahn-TO-nee-ah (German, Dutch), ahn-TAWN-yah (Polish)	Italian, Spanish, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Ancient Roma