| 词组 | come to heel |
| 释义 | Idiom come to heel to stop behaving in a way that annoys someone in authority and to start obeying their orders.A few government rebels refused to come to heel and had to be expelled from the party. come to heelTo assume a position of subjugation, discipline, or submission to authority. You need to come to heel because the CEO was not pleased when you spoke out of turn at the annual general meeting. Sir, the members of your squad are all out of control. They must come to heel right away! come to ˈheel,bring somebody to ˈheelobey the rules; make somebody obey the rules: He’ll soon come to heel if I start to get nasty with him.Tell him you’ll leave him if he does it again. That’ll bring him to heel, I’m sure.If you tell a dog to come to heel, you make it come close to you. |
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