| 单词 | set back on one's heels |
| 释义 | set back on one's heelsSurprise, shock, or disconcert, as in The news of their divorce set us back on our heels. This idiom, with its graphic image of someone being pushed back, dates from the first half of the 1900s. Words nearby set back on one's heelssetaria, set-aside, set at, set at rest, setback, set back on one's heels, set back the clock, set by, set chisel, set down, se-tenant The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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