in hot pursuit

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in hot pursuit

if you are in hot pursuit of someone or something, you are following closely behind them and trying hard to catch them The gang fled from the scene of the crime with the police in hot pursuit. (often + of ) Jean immediately jumped into her car and set off in hot pursuit of the truck. Owen Good raced round the final bend in the track, with Mark Bishop in hot pursuit.

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SEEING a ship sailing by upon the sea of politics, an Ambitious Person started in hot pursuit along the strand; but the people's eyes being fixed upon the Presidency no one observed the pursuer. Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context As if too long lurking behind the headlands, till the Pequod should fairly have entered the straits, these rascally Asiatics were now in hot pursuit, to make up for their over-cautious delay. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context			in good hands in good repair in good shape in good spirits in good time in great demand in great haste in hair in hand in harm's way in harmony in harness in heart of hearts in heat in heaven in heaven's name in high cotton in high dudgeon in high gear in his wisdom in hock in hog heaven in honor of in hopes of in horror in hot pursuit in hot water in hour of need in ink in interest in inverted commas in its entirety in jeopardy in jest in just a minute in just a moment in keeping in keeping with in kind in labor in large part in league in league with in less than no time in lieu of in light of in limbo in line in line for in line with in living memory			In His Name in his own right In His Presence in his right mind In His Service In His Service and Yours in his wisdom In Hoc Sepulcro In hoc signo vinces In Hoc Signo, Vinces in hock in hock in hog heaven In Home Computer Repair, Inc. In Home Devices In Home Health, Inc. In Home Pet Services In Home Support Staff In Home Support Waiver in honor in honor in honor bound in honor bound In Honor Of In Honor Of In Hope Freedom Rings Foundation in hopes of in horror in hot pursuit In Hot Pursuit/Chase in hot water in hot water in hour of need In house In house In house In house In house counsel In house counsel In House Laboratory Independent Research In House Magazine In House Processing Float In House Processing Floats In House Project In House Services In House Trade In House Trades in hysterics In idle In Ieder Geval In ill part in ink in installments in interest In Internet Relay Chat in intraocular pressure diurnal variations in inverted commas In invitum

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