(hard/hot) on sb's/sth's heels

(hard/hot) on sb's/sth's ˈheelsvery close behind sb/sth; very soon after sth紧跟；紧接在后News of rising unemployment followed hard on the heels of falling export figures.出口数字下降之后紧接着就是失业率上升的消息。

• silk-cotton tree
• lonesomenesses
• two-port
• halting
• basineted
• continuous-wave radar
• catch the drift of
• rumba
• incontrovertibly
• in sb's name / in the name of sb
• exceeded
• stridulant
• photo finish
• serjeant at law
• dipropylene glycol
• fruiting
• malefaction
• channel pattern
• in one's province
• vestige
• Swizzer
• bitonal
• dictyosomes
• loadstars
• optical aspherical lens
• radar transponder
• white blood cell
• PSOs
• Liederkranz
• main guard
• putto
• packet transmission
• phenomenas
• cantilever wall
• say hello
• Tokara Islands
• silicon wafer
• covert action
• predaceousness
• secular equilibrium
• porbeagle
• ripest
• bourbon whiskey
• air mosaic
• millionairess
• misliking
• make a dust
• no little
• mentioners
• rabbit punch
• dirt bikes
• buggygies
• monochromatized
• mail cover check
• conveyors
• second radiation constant
• oldwife
• unbrace
• phenol
• landship
• incombustibleness
• plane polarization
• glume
• on dope
• cro-magnons
• water hogs
• self-portrait
• fulbrighters
• paracoquimbite
• Mysia
• Wood's glass
• be on the cops
• multiplane
• range zero
• skill
• tin can
• eugenol
• translatory fault
• die （或drop） like flies
• passive front
• fjeld
• disrobes
• ribands
• epithelias
• exclusion clauses
• deaconesses
• sickbeds
• tetrahydroamino-acridine
• association copy
• Drava, Drave
• wisents
• excrementous
• incarceration
• undraping
• dorpats
• ranked
• fuchsite
• tailwagging
• billylid
• Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm