in hot pursuit

English

Etymology

See hot pursuit.

Prepositional phrase

in hot pursuit

  1. (law enforcement, idiomatic) Pursuing someone in order to apprehend them, 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.
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