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drop in one's tracks



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Collapse from weariness or illness; also, die suddenly. For example, I packed all day until I could have dropped in my tracks , or Grandfather's died; he just dropped in his tracks . The phrase in one's tracks has meant “where one is at the moment,” and by extension, “instantly,” since the early 1800s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from 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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