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set back on one's heels
set back on one's heels
set back on one's heels
Surprise, shock, or disconcert, as in
The news of their divorce set us back on our heels
. This idiom, with its graphic image of someone being pushed back, dates from the first half of the 1900s.
See also:
back
,
heel
,
on
,
set
Common Names:
Name
Gender
Pronounced
Usage
Emyr
-
Welsh
Savitri
-
Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Adalfuns
-
Ancient Germanic
Nanna (1)
NAN-nah
(Danish)
, NAHN-nah
(Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic)
Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Norse Mythology
Cicely
SIS-ə-lee
English
ViŠNja
VEESH-nyah
Croatian, Serbian
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