Idiom
kick one's heels
Meaning
To wait; to wait impatiently or restlessly.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I am kicking my heels while waiting for the bus.”
“We spent all afternoon kicking our heels in the lobby because the meeting was delayed.”
“While the diplomats debated behind closed doors, the journalists were left kicking their heels in the hallway, desperate for any scrap of information.”
Examples
simple
“I am kicking my heels while waiting for the bus.”
contextual
“We spent all afternoon kicking our heels in the lobby because the meeting was delayed.”
complex
“While the diplomats debated behind closed doors, the journalists were left kicking their heels in the hallway, desperate for any scrap of information.”
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