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Idioms and Phrases

Also, hard on the heels of . Directly behind, immediately following, as in Mom's birthday comes on the heels of Mother's Day , or Hard on the heels of the flood there was a tornado . The hard in the variant acts as an intensifier, giving it the sense of “close on the heels of”. [Early 1800s] Also see at one's heels .
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On the heels of the catastrophic January wildfires, L.A.

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This banner career moment for Koy next door to LAX comes on the heels of a rather scary moment in the skies earlier this month as a passenger with his family on an L.A.-bound flight from the Philippines that made an emergency landing in Tokyo after smoke started billowing into the cabin due to an electrical fire.

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It will ride on the heels of Adebimpe’s debut solo album, “Thee Black Boltz,” which reinforces the fact that Adebimpe is one of the most adventurous, incisive singer-songwriters of the last few decades, at least.

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Three people were shot near a bus stop in Exposition Park on Monday afternoon on the heels of three separate shootings that occurred in South L.A. over the weekend.

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On the heels of her last hilarious Netflix special “Single Lady,” Wong is at it again, working on new material in a short stint aptly called “Work in Progress” for four shows.

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