cool one's heels
verbDefinitions
To wait, especially impatiently or restlessly.
- I cooled my heels in the cloisters till nine, then went in to the music-meeting.
- Remember I say it—he'll cool his heels in a prison, if he's no wiser than of late, before a twel'month.
- Indeed his annoyance had time to augment a good deal; for he was allowed to cool his heels a full half hour in the ante-room before those gentlemen emerged and he was ushered into the presence.
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