{"id":36,"date":"2014-04-05T09:47:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T09:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2014-04-05T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T09:47:12","slug":"idiomatic-expressions-with-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/idiomatic-expressions-with-heels\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiomatic expressions with heels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of idiomatic expressions using the word <strong>heels.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>At someone\u2019s heels<\/h2>\n<p>When you are at someone\u2019s heels, you are just behind them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The mother pushed her way through the crowd, her kids at her heels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bring \/ call someone to heel<\/h2>\n<p>To bring or call someone to heel is to make them do what you want them to do.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She is a demanding wife. She brings her husband to heel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>(Hard \/ hot \/ close) on the heels of<\/h2>\n<p>This expression is used to refer to something that happens immediately after something else. It can also be used to talk about someone who follows close behind.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>News reporters arrived hot on the heels of the police. (= News reporters arrived immediately after the police arrived.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>She announced her resignation hard on the heels of the election of the new President. (= As soon as the new President was elected, she elected her resignation.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Take to your heels<\/h2>\n<p>To take to your heels is to run away from someone. This expression is mainly used in a literary style.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The thieves took to their heels as soon as they saw the police coming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>To turn on your heel \/ spin on your heel<\/h2>\n<p>To turn on your heel is to turn quickly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She turned on her heel and went back to the room.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Under someone\u2019s heel<\/h2>\n<p>When you are under someone\u2019s heel, you are under their complete control.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is under his wife\u2019s heel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Cool your heels<\/h2>\n<p>To cool your heels is to have to wait for somebody.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I spent hours cooling my heels in the park but she didn\u2019t come.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of idiomatic expressions using the word heels. At someone\u2019s heels When you are at someone\u2019s heels, you are just behind them. The mother pushed her way through the crowd, her&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-heel-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}