heels or heal

[Abraham]

Please can explain this expression "when he should be cooling his heels in
jail or hiding away in one remote corner of the world".Which is correct heels
or heals?

Thanks
Abraham

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com]

heels

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/cool+heels. The idea is that your
feet get hot when you are walking. When you are forced to wait, they cool
off.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Thierry Fontenelle [MSFT]]

Abraham,

It’s “heelsâ€, as Doug and Suzanne confirmed. Note that if you write the
following in Office 2007:

when he should be cooling his heals in jail or hiding away in one remote
corner of the world

You will see a blue squiggly line under “heals†and the suggestion offered
by the contextual speller (if you right-click on heals) is “heelsâ€.

I hope it helps,

Thierry Fontenelle [MSFT]
Microsoft Natural Language Grou
http://blogs.msdn.com/naturallanguage/archive/tags/contextual+speller/default.aspx