DEAD IN SOMEONE'S OR AN ANIMAL'S TRACKS

dead in someone's or an animal's tracks: translation

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

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Her unkind words stopped me dead in my tracks.

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When I heard the rattlesnake, I stopped dead in my tracks.