kick up your heels

kick up your heels
Kick up your heels
(USA) If you kick up your heels, you go to parties or celebrate something.

The small dictionary of idiomes. 2014.

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  • kick up your heels — see ↑kick, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑heel kick up your heels US informal : to relax and enjoy yourself : to have a good and lively time After exams were over, the students had a little time to kick up their heels. • • • Main Entry: ↑kick …   Useful english dictionary

  • kick up your heels — kick up (your) heels American & Australian to do things that you enjoy. After the exams, we kicked up our heels and had a really good party …   New idioms dictionary

  • kick up your heels — celebrate, go to parties, have fun    After you ve written your exams you can kick up your heels …   English idioms

  • kick up your heels —    If you kick up your heels, you go to parties or celebrate something.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • kick your heels — british phrase to waste time waiting for someone or something They were forced to kick their heels for nearly a quarter of an hour. Thesaurus: to waste time, or to pass time doing unimportant thingssynonym to delay action, wait or hesitatesynonym …   Useful english dictionary

  • kick your heels — (UK) If you have to kick your heels, you are forced to wait for the result or outcome of something …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • kick your heels — kick (your) heels British to be forced to wait for a period of time. I m fed up kicking my heels at home while all my friends are out enjoying themselves. (usually in continuous tenses) …   New idioms dictionary

  • kick your heels — British to waste time waiting for someone or something They were forced to kick their heels for nearly a quarter of an hour …   English dictionary

  • kick up heels — kick up (your) heels American & Australian to do things that you enjoy. After the exams, we kicked up our heels and had a really good party …   New idioms dictionary

  • kick — kick1 W3S2 [kık] v [I and T] 1.) to hit something with your foot kick sth down/over/around etc ▪ Billy was kicking a ball around the yard. ▪ The police kicked the door down. kick sb in the stomach/face/shin etc ▪ There was a scuffle and he kicked …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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