stop someone in their tracks
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stop someone in their tracks
verb stops someone in their tracks · stopping someone in their tracks · stopped someone in their tracks
- To prevent someone from continuing along a path or way, literal or figurative, he has begun going along. This magnificent picture really stopped me in my tracks when I stumbled across it. I was drawn inexorably and immediately into the compelling detail discernible on this top-quality image.
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| Français | couper dans son élan, interrompre |
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