to heel

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English[edit]

Prepositional phrase[edit]

Into submissive agreement or compliance.
The dissident members of the party finally came to heel after the president's speech.

Interjection[edit]

An order to an animal, by its master, not to stray far from him.
Fido! Come back here! To heel!

Translations[edit]

order not to stray far

Finnish: luokse (fi), tänne (fi)
French: au pied (fr)
Polish: do nogi
Portuguese: junto (pt)

Anagrams[edit]

Thoele, œthel

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