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hot on heels

hot on your heels

also close on your heels
1. following directly behind someone She headed inside the house with her brother hot on her heels. Related vocabulary: in hot pursuit (of somebody/something)
2. very near to someone in rank They know we're hard on their heels and that they've got to win their next three games to make the playoffs.
See also: heel, hot, on

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Mckinnon[mə'kinən]
Hendrikje-Dutch
TatjanaTAHT-yah-nah (Finnish)Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish
ChrystalKRIS-təlEnglish
ValÉRian-French
NathanNAY-thən (English), na-TAWN (French)English, French, Hebrew, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
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