in one's tracks

1. see drop in one's tracks; follow in one's tracks; stop cold (dead in one's tracks).

Example Sentences

Frequently the featured photography in The Post stops one in one’s tracks because of its artistic quality.

From Washington Post

The effect is to be pulled forward and backward simultaneously: yanked into motion by the composition, and stopped in one’s tracks by the Word.

From The New Yorker

Track′lessness; Track′man, one who has charge of a railway-track; Track′-road, a towing-path; Track′-walk′er, a trackman having charge of a certain section of railway-track.—In one's tracks, just where one stands; Make tracks, to go away hastily, to decamp; Make tracks for, to go after; Off the track, derailed, of a railway carriage, &c.: away from the proper subject.

From Project Gutenberg

At other times, one is dazzled by a field of snow or stopped in one's tracks by the sound of a tempest or by birdsong.

From The Guardian