stop someone in their tracks (English, verb)
expansion: stop someone in their tracks (third-person singular simple present stops someone in their tracks, present participle stopping someone in their tracks, simple past and past participle stopped someone in their tracks)
Senses:
glosses: To prevent someone from continuing along a path or way, literal or figurative, he has begun going along.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: stops someone in their tracks
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stopping someone in their tracks
tags: participle
present
form: stopped someone in their tracks
tags: participle
past
form: stopped someone in their tracks
tags: past