dead in someone's or an animal's tracks
- dead in someone's or an animal's tracks
dead in someone's or an animal's tracks
Fig. exactly where someone or something is at the moment; at this instant. (This does not usually have anything to do with death. The phrase is often used with
stop
.) •
Her unkind words stopped me dead in my tracks.
•
When I heard the rattlesnake, I stopped dead in my tracks.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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