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on the heels of
Idioms and Phrases
Also, hard on the heels of . Directly behind, immediately following, as in Mom's birthday comes on the heels of Mother's Day , or Hard on the heels of the flood there was a tornado . The hard in the variant acts as an intensifier, giving it the sense of “close on the heels of”. [Early 1800s] Also see at one's heels .Example Sentences
On the heels of her last hilarious Netflix special “Single Lady,” Wong is at it again, working on new material in a short stint aptly called “Work in Progress” for four shows.
This week’s vote will follow President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional power grab of an executive order on voting last week, and comes hot on the heels of the president’s clarification over the weekend that he was absolutely not joking about securing an unconstitutional third term for himself.
In a press release reported on by Variety, the lauded singer-songwriter decided to release her testament to the contributions of queer, Black musicians who pioneered dance music on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic because, as she put it, “there was too much heaviness in the world. We wanted to dance. We deserved to dance.”
But out of these hard times and on the heels of victory, a new vision of society was emerging in Britain.
Mooney's detention came on the heels of that of Rebecca Burke, a Welsh comic artist who ICE detained for 19 days at a Washington state facility over concerns she had violated her visa.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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