- hot on the trail
- following the trail, looking for evidence
The police are hot on the trail of the bank robbers.
English Idioms. Sayings and slang .
hot on the trail
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hot on the trail — (hot) on the trail (of sth) ► very close to finding or achieving something: »NPR s reporter is hot on the trail of the story. Main Entry: ↑trail … Financial and business terms
hot on the trail of sth — (hot) on the trail (of sth) ► very close to finding or achieving something: »NPR s reporter is hot on the trail of the story. Main Entry: ↑trail … Financial and business terms
hot on the trail of — 1) very close behind someone or something, and about to catch them He got away but the police are hot on his trail. 2) very close to finding something … English dictionary
hot on the trail of — See hot on the heels of … Thesaurus of popular words
hot on the trail of — … Useful english dictionary
hot on the heels of — hot on the trail of the marketing mavens are hot on the heels of this latest craze Syn: close behind, directly after, right after, straight after, hard on the heels of, following closely … Thesaurus of popular words
on the trail — (hot) on the trail (of sth) ► very close to finding or achieving something: »NPR s reporter is hot on the trail of the story. Main Entry: ↑trail … Financial and business terms
on the trail of sth — (hot) on the trail (of sth) ► very close to finding or achieving something: »NPR s reporter is hot on the trail of the story. Main Entry: ↑trail … Financial and business terms
on the trail of — (hot) on the trail of phrase very close to finding someone or to discovering something Detectives are hot on the trail of a serial killer. Thesaurus: relating to searching and findinghyponym to search for something or someonesynonym Main entry … Useful english dictionary
hot — [ hat ] adjective *** ▸ 1 very high in temperature ▸ 2 food: with spices ▸ 3 involving strong emotion ▸ 4 exciting and interesting ▸ 5 very good/skillful/lucky ▸ 6 difficult/dangerous ▸ 7 involving sex ▸ 8 determined to do something ▸ 9 busy ▸ 10 … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
