hot on someone's heels
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- (idiomatic) Close behind; pursuing or following closely.
- She left the restaurant with him hot on her heels.
- 2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Newcastle beat Bolton to increase the pressure on the Londoners, while Chelsea are also hot on the heels of faltering Tottenham, who have one win from their last eight games.
- 2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 52:
- Hot on the heels of Network Rail remodelling King's Cross comes news of cuts to East Coast Main Line services.
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References
edit- “hot on the heels of”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.