Kick One's Heels

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Kick One's Heels

Definition: Kick One's Heels

Kick One's Heels

Verb

1. Wait or pass the time aimlessly or futilely; be kept waiting; "She kicked her heels for hours at the gate of the Embassy".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms within Context: Kick One's Heels

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inaction	Cool one's heels, kick one's heels; while away the time, while away tedious hours; pass the time, fill up the time, beguile the time; talk against time; let the grass grow under one's feet; waste time; (inactive).
Lateness	Lose an opportunity; be kept waiting, dance attendance; kick one's heels, cool one's heels; faire antichambre; wait impatiently; await; (expect); sit up, sit up at night.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: Kick One's Heels

Language		Translations for "kick one's heels"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pres kot. (various references)

Czech		tvrdnout nìkde, musit dlouho èekat. (various references)

Hungarian		várakoztatják (cool one's heels), rostokol (cool one's heels, to cool one's heels), ácsorog (cool one's heels, lounge, stand about, to cool one's heels, to loiter, to lounge, to stand about). (various references)

Pig Latin		ickkay one'say eelshay

Russian		стоять в ожидании (cool one's heels). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lenčariti (idle, loaf, muck about, slug), dangubiti (beat time, frig, laze, loaf, waste time). (various references)

Swedish		vara sysslolös, stå och vänta. (various references)

Turkish		sabırsızlanmak (become impatient, look forward to, strain at the leash), sabırsızca beklemek, bekletilmek (cool one's heels), ağaç olmak (cool one's heels, plant). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Kick One's Heels

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "'-c-e-e-e-h-i-k-k-l-n-o-s-s"
	-4 letters: cheekiness.
	-5 letters: kneeholes, kneesocks, licensees, sinkholes.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography

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