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cool heels

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  • cool heels — cool (your) heels if someone leaves you to cool your heels, they force you to wait, often until you become calmer. The youths were left to cool their heels overnight in a police cell …   New idioms dictionary

  • cool your heels — informal phrase to have to wait for something, especially when this is annoying and boring Thesaurus: to delay action, wait or hesitatesynonym Main entry: cool * * * cool your heels informal : to wait for someone or something : to take a break… …   Useful english dictionary

  • cool one's heels — {v. phr.}, {slang} To be kept waiting by another s pride or rudeness; be forced to wait by someone in power or authority; wait. * /He cooled his heels for an hour in another room before the great man would see him./ * /I was left to cool my heels …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • cool one's heels — {v. phr.}, {slang} To be kept waiting by another s pride or rudeness; be forced to wait by someone in power or authority; wait. * /He cooled his heels for an hour in another room before the great man would see him./ * /I was left to cool my heels …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • cool your heels — cool (your) heels if someone leaves you to cool your heels, they force you to wait, often until you become calmer. The youths were left to cool their heels overnight in a police cell …   New idioms dictionary

  • cool your heels — If you leave someone to cool their heels, you make them wait until they have calmed down …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • Cool — Cool, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cooling}.] 1. To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water. [1913 Webster] Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue. Luke xvi …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • cool (or Brit. kick) one's heels — be kept waiting. → heel …   English new terms dictionary

  • cool one's heels — ► cool (or Brit. kick) one s heels be kept waiting. Main Entry: ↑heel …   English terms dictionary

  • cool one's heels — verb wait or pass the time aimlessly or futilely; be kept waiting She kicked her heels for hours at the gate of the Embassy • Syn: ↑kick one s heels • Hypernyms: ↑wait • Verb Frames: Something s …   Useful english dictionary

  • heels — n. 1) to click one s heels 2) built up; high; low heels 3) to be at, on smb. s heels ( to follow smb. closely ) 4) (misc.) to cool one s heels ( to be kept waiting ); down at the heels ( shabby ); to kick up one s heels ( to be very lively ); to… …   Combinatory dictionary

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