Meaning: cartwheels

n.
a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rimacrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheela dollar made of silver
v.
do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet

cool (one's) heels Idiom, Proverb

cool your heels

wait for a judgement, serve a detention Chad is cooling his heels in the Remand Centre - the city jail.

dig in their heels

hold their position, not yield or move "If we discuss money, he digs in his heels. ""No raises,"" he says."

drag one's heels

act slowly or reluctantly The government has been dragging their heels in talks with the union about their new contract.

head over heels

in love with, crazy about Lan's head over heals for Chan. She's crazy about him.

hell-on-wheels

a short-tempered, nagging or crabby person She is hell-on-wheels in the morning so you should be careful of her.

hot on your heels

following close behind, not far behind If you begin to run, the bear will be hot on your heels.

kick up your heels

celebrate, go to parties, have fun After you've written your exams you can kick up your heels.

on the heels

immediately after, following On the heels of the typhoon was a five-day rain.

set of wheels

vehicle, car, truck, wheels The Ford needs a lot of repairs. I need a new set of wheels.

spin your wheels

waste effort, not progress If you don't have a career goal you'll just spin your wheels.

cool (one's) heels

To wait, sometimes so that one becomes calmer or added composed. You charge to air-conditioned your heels for a minute and stop babble at the staff—they didn't do annihilation wrong. We were excited, but we had to air-conditioned our heels aback the absolution date for the new bold got pushed back.Learn more: cool, heel

cool one's heels

Fig. to delay (for someone); to delay for article to happen. I spent an hour cooling my heels in the cat-and-mouse allowance while the doctor saw added patients. All right, if you can't behave properly, aloof sit down actuality and air-conditioned your heels until I alarm you.Learn more: cool, heel

cool one's heels

Wait or be kept waiting, as in I've been cooling my heels in the doctor's cat-and-mouse allowance for at atomic an hour. This appellation originally meant to air-conditioned one's anxiety aback they become hot from walking, and began to be acclimated ironically for actuality affected to blow (or wait) in the aboriginal 1600s. Learn more: cool, heel

cool your heels

be kept waiting. A British alternative of this is kick your heels .Learn more: cool, heel

ˌcool your ˈheels

(informal) be kept waiting: The coffer administrator had asked to see her at four o’clock but she had to sit cooling her heels for about 45 minutes.Learn more: cool, heel

cool (one's) heels

Informal To delay or be kept waiting.Learn more: cool, heel

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