cool one's heels
быть вынужденным ждать кого-либо из начальства
Ann had to cool her heels for half an hour in the office before her boss would see her.
Другие идиомы:
- bring (someone) to heel
- down-at-the-heels
- kick up one's heels
- dig in one's heels
- on the heels of (something)
- Achilles' heel (of someone or something)
- at one's heels
- turn on one's heel
- on one's heels
- set one back on one's heels
- take to one's heels
- Break a leg!
- get one's sea legs
- have a hollow leg
- have a leg to stand on