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Madhulk Posted 18 years ago
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click one's heels

0 What's the meaning of the idiom "click one's heels". I can't seem to find it anywhere.02br
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0 It's a reference to the movie "The Wizard of Oz," starring Judy Garland - can't remember the year, 1939 maybe. In the movie (which was based on a children's book by L. Frank Baum) Dorothy is carried by a tornado away from her home in the flat, dull Kansas farmlands into a wonderful, magical world peopled by little Munchkins and ruled by the Wizard of Oz, who lives in the Emerald City.

— Delmobile

  • 0 It's a reference to the movie "The Wizard of Oz," starring Judy Garland - can't remember the year, 1939 maybe.
  • In the movie (which was based on a children's book by L.
  • Frank Baum) Dorothy is carried by a tornado away from her home in the flat, dull Kansas farmlands into a wonderful, magical world peopled by little Munchkins and ruled by the Wizard of Oz, who lives in the Emerald City.
  • The tornado sets down her house on the Wicked Witch of the East, killing her outright.
  • Although Dorothy did not intend to kill the witch, she is hailed as a hero by the Munchkins of that area.
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0 It's a reference to the movie "The Wizard of Oz," starring Judy Garland - can't remember the year, 1939 maybe. In the movie (which was based on a children's book by L. Frank Baum) Dorothy is carried by a tornado away from her home in the flat, dull Kansas farmlands into a wonderful, magical world peopled by little Munchkins and ruled by the Wizard of Oz, who lives in the Emerald City. The tor
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it is refering to Dorothy and the wizard of oz.

she clicks her heels to return home to real life in Kansas
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To click one's heels means, as far as I know, "to wait" or "to wait for a long time"'
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Hi,

To click one's heels means, as far as I know, "to wait" or "to wait for a long time"'

No. You are thinking of the idiom, 'To cool one's heels'.

Clive
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I agree with Clive. But also "cool one's heels" can be expressed as "kick one's heels". Please see (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/kick-your-heels.html). Apparently first cited in a work by Samuel Foot - The Minor, in 1760.
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Anonymous"cool one's heels" can be expressed as "kick one's heels"
Just guessing, but I don't think this one (with 'kick') made its way across the Atlantic.

You are the first in this thread to bring up "kick one's heels", by the way. The original question was about "click one's heels".

CJ
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