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Julia Huong
2021-12-09 09:12
Show (someone) a clean pair of heels old-fashioned verb phrase
To run away at great speed
The killer shows the police a clean pair of heels. They are tracking him to his hide-out.
He showed me a clean pair of heels. I couldn't catch up with him.
To move to a position superior to someone else within a competition or contest
Alice showed her opponents a clean pair of heels in the horse race yesterday.
In terms of sales, their company is currently showing ours a clean pair of heels.
The expression is used at the beginning of a competition to say that you hope the most fastest, strongest, or most skilled succeed person
wins.
I will win no matter what happens.
To win only by a smaill amount; to win narrowly
To flee or run
The verb "show" should be conjugated according to its tense.
The phrase dates from the 16th century. It's said to originate from cockfighting when birds wore sharp spurs. Both its spur and heels would be clean if a cockerel bolted, refusing to fight.
Do you see anything wrong?
The similarity between the children and their parents
I looked at my father's eyes, then looked at my eyes. I thought the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
