| 词汇 | cool your heels |
| 释义 | cool your heelscool your heels WAITto be forced to wait 不得不等候，久等 I’ll put him in a cell to cool his heels for a bit. 我要把他关到牢里让他去等。 Examples from the Corpus cool your heels• Basically, if you believe the law of averages, 1996 should be a year for mutual funds to cool their heels.• If a man was workshy and mutinous I would put him in a cell to cool his heels for a while.• He was ushered forward after cooling his heels for four minutes.• I had to cool my heels in a long line at the checkout.• As things turned out, I had a week to cool my heels in New York.• Our sources, who are cooling their heels waiting for chips, continue to think Intel is having problems making the parts.• His office says he has kept at least 20 top-flight journalists and analysts cooling their heels waiting to interview him since October. → cool your heels at cool2(2) |
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