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in one's tracks
Idioms and Phrases
see drop in one's tracks ; follow in one's tracks ; stop cold (dead in one's tracks) .Example Sentences
Frequently the featured photography in The Post stops one in oneās tracks because of its artistic quality.
The effect is to be pulled forward and backward simultaneously: yanked into motion by the composition, and stopped in oneās tracks by the 51³Ō¹Ļ.
Trackā²lessness; Trackā²man, one who has charge of a railway-track; Trackā²-road, a towing-path; Trackā²-walkā²er, a trackman having charge of a certain section of railway-track.āIn one's tracks, just where one stands; Make tracks, to go away hastily, to decamp; Make tracks for, to go after; Off the track, derailed, of a railway carriage, &c.: away from the proper subject.
At other times, one is dazzled by a field of snow or stopped in one's tracks by the sound of a tempest or by birdsong.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Ā© Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageĀ® Idioms Dictionary copyright Ā© 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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