halt in your tracks

halt in your tracks
stop/halt sb in their ˈtracks | stop/halt/freeze in your ˈtracks idiom
to suddenly make sb stop by frightening or surprising them; to suddenly stop because sth has frightened or surprised you

The question stopped Alice in her tracks.

Main entry:trackidiom

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