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hot on heels

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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