- stop (or be stopped) in one's tracks
- stop (or be stopped) in one's tracksinformalbe brought to a sudden and complete halt.→ track
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stop (or be stopped) in one's tracks
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be stopped in one's tracks — ► stop (or be stopped) in one s tracks informal be brought to a sudden and complete halt. Main Entry: ↑track … English terms dictionary
stop in one's tracks — ► stop (or be stopped) in one s tracks informal be brought to a sudden and complete halt. Main Entry: ↑track … English terms dictionary
stop\ in\ one's\ tracks — • stop cold • stop dead • stop in one s tracks v. phr. informal To stop very quickly or with great force. The hunter pulled the trigger and stopped the deer cold. When I saw Mary on the street, I was so surprised I stopped dead. The deer heard a… … Словарь американских идиом
stop dead in one's tracks — If you stop dead in your tracks, you stop suddenly because you are frightened or totally surprised. When Steve saw the snake, he stopped dead in his tracks … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
Tracks (Transformers) — Tracks (Le Sillage in French Canada, Puma in Italy) is the name to a single character in the Transformers Universes. The name is now too generic to license in recent times; so the toys creator, Hasbro had to add a modifier a prefix to the name in … Wikipedia
stop\ cold — • stop cold • stop dead • stop in one s tracks v. phr. informal To stop very quickly or with great force. The hunter pulled the trigger and stopped the deer cold. When I saw Mary on the street, I was so surprised I stopped dead. The deer heard a… … Словарь американских идиом
stop\ dead — • stop cold • stop dead • stop in one s tracks v. phr. informal To stop very quickly or with great force. The hunter pulled the trigger and stopped the deer cold. When I saw Mary on the street, I was so surprised I stopped dead. The deer heard a… … Словарь американских идиом
stop — I UK [stɒp] / US [stɑp] verb Word forms stop : present tense I/you/we/they stop he/she/it stops present participle stopping past tense stopped past participle stopped *** Get it right: stop: When you want to say that someone is no longer doing… … English dictionary
stop — stop1 [ stap ] verb *** ▸ 1 prevent something ▸ 2 no longer do something ▸ 3 no longer move ▸ 4 (make) work no longer ▸ 5 stay at someone s house ▸ 6 block pipe/hole etc. ▸ 1 no longer do something ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) transitive to prevent someone… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
stop — I n. halt cessation 1) to make a stop 2) to put a stop to (the teacher put a stop to the cheating) 3) to bring to a stop (the driver brought the bus to a stop) 4) to come to a stop (the train came to a stop) 5) an abrupt, sudden; brief; dead;… … Combinatory dictionary
