dog (one's) footsteps

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To appear to follow or accompany one wherever they go. It's a shame, but tragedy has been dogging her footsteps for years.

dog somebody’s ˈfootsteps

(of a problem or bad luck) seem to follow somebody everywhere: Bad luck seems to have dogged our footsteps from the beginning.

See also: dog, footstep

References in classic literature ?

He sometimes thought that Svidrigailov was dogging his footsteps.

But emotionally and mentally, you are still dogging his footsteps.

And no sign of photographers with long lenses or acid-penned journalists dogging his footsteps.

There are tough aspects dogging his footsteps for the next two months, after which he has a clearer run of it.

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