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"Put back on heels" nghĩa là gì?
03 Feb, 2020
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"Put/set (one) back on (one's) heels" = Khiến ai phải quay lại bằng gót chân -> Làm cho ai vô cùng ngạc nhiên, sửng sốt và bất ổn.
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“It kind of just put me back on my heels a little,” Ali recalls. “I thought, 'You have to work harder. You have to try harder. You have to become better than everyone else.' I had a chip on my shoulder.”
“The expectations suddenly have risen through the roof for the local MP. So I think that alone will put him back on his heels a bit. Because now he is going to have to produce results that we believe we would have produced,” said Pupatello.
Shortly after Jenny Niemann launched her office furniture dealership last year, a branding consultant asked her a question that put her back on her heels. Is the brand male or female? “That one really caught me by surprise,” said Niemann, CEO of Chicago-based Forward Space, a dealer for office furniture maker Steelcase.
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