in one's tracks

[in one's tracks] {adv. phr.}, {informal}

1. Just where one is at the moment; abruptly; immediately.

/The hunter's rifle cracked and the rabbit dropped in his tracks./

/Mary stopped dead in her tracks, turned around, and ran back home./

Syn.: ON THE SPOT(1), THEN AND THERE.

2. See: FOLLOW IN ONE'S FOOTSTEPS.

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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