set one back on one's heels
удивить, ошеломить, шокировать кого-либо
Пример использования идиомы set one back on one's heels:
The news, which set my back on my heels, was announced at the interval of thirty minutes.
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Другие идиомы:
- set great store on (someone or something)
- set in one's ways
- set (someone or something) loose
- set the world on fire
- set (someone) up (in business)
- turn on one's heel
- set one's sights on (something)
- to set up (something)
- Achilles' heel (of someone or something)
- dig in one's heels
- set (someone or something) free
- down-at-the-heels
- set one's teeth on edge
- at one's heels
- set one's mind at rest