| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Heel, Heels | Literature | 1: "A good man's fortune may grow out at heels." Shakespeare: King Lear, ii. 2. 2: "Two of them saw me when I went out of doors, and chased me, but I showed them a fair pair of heels." - Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak, chap. xxiv. 3: Achilles' heel. (See under Achilles.) 4: (Anglo-Saxon hel.) 5: I showed him a fair pair of heels. I ran away and outran them. 6: Out at heels. In a sad plight, in decayed circumstances, like a beggar whose stockings are worn out at the heels. 7: To show a light pair of heels. To abscond. 8: To take to one's heels. To run off. "In pedes nos conjicere. " Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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