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to heel

to heel prepositional phrase: into submissive agreement or compliance.

Prepositional phrase

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

Interjection

to heel

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

Questions about to heel

What does to heel mean?
To heel means into submissive agreement or compliance.
What part of speech is to heel?
To heel can be a prepositional phrase or an interjection.

Words near to heel in the dictionary

  1. to go
  2. to God
  3. to hand
  4. to have and to hold
  5. to heck in a handbasket
  6. to heel
  7. to hell
  8. to hell and back
  9. to hell and gone
  10. to hell in a handbasket
  11. to hell in a handcart

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