in hot pursuit
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See hot pursuit
Prepositional phrase
[edit]- Pursuing someone in order to apprehend him, especially across a border.
- 2011, Colin Bateman, SOS Adventure: Tusk:
- PC Winters gunned the patrol car out of the side road where they'd been parked, bored and waiting for the end of their shift, and took off in hot pursuit.