"hack i häl" meaning in Swedish

See hack i häl in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Etymology: Literally, “heel in heel”. Etymology templates: {{m-g|heel in heel}} “heel in heel”, {{lit|heel in heel}} Literally, “heel in heel” Head templates: {{head|sv|adverb|head=|sort=}} hack i häl, {{sv-adv|-}} hack i häl (not comparable)
  1. (idiomatic) hot on someone's heels, (snapping) at someone's heels Tags: idiomatic, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-hack_i_häl-sv-adv-lYXclSAN Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Swedish entries with incorrect language header
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "heel in heel"
      },
      "expansion": "“heel in heel”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "heel in heel"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “heel in heel”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “heel in heel”.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "adverb",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "hack i häl",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "hack i häl (not comparable)",
      "name": "sv-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swedish",
  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              50,
              62
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              49,
              59
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.",
          "ref": "2000 December 18, “Job 18:11”, in Bibel 2000, © Svenska Bibelsällskapet, accessed at Bible.com, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2025:",
          "text": "Fasor ansätter honom från alla håll, de är honom hack i häl.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              94,
              110
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              101,
              111
            ]
          ],
          "english": "After a short car chase, he lost control of his car and skidded into a ditch. The police were hot on his heels, and the chase continued on foot.",
          "ref": "2015 September 4, Håkan Alamaa, “Körde rattfull – skyllde på Hells Angels”, in Sveriges Television, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2025:",
          "text": "Efter en kort biljakt förlorade [han] kontrollen över bilen och sladdade ner i ett dike. Polisen var hack i häl och jakten fortsatte till fots.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              50,
              73
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              48,
              58
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Mariebo IK leads with 24 points, but Bergdalen is snapping at their heels with 21.",
          "ref": "2020 September 26, P4 Sjuhärad, “Bergdalen har chans till serievinst efter 3-3 mot Mariebo”, in Sveriges Radio, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2025:",
          "text": "Mariebo IK leder med 24 poäng, men Bergdalen är hack i häl med 21.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hot on someone's heels, (snapping) at someone's heels"
      ],
      "id": "en-hack_i_häl-sv-adv-lYXclSAN",
      "links": [
        [
          "hot on someone's heels",
          "hot on someone's heels"
        ],
        [
          "(snapping)",
          "snap at someone's heels"
        ],
        [
          "at someone's heels",
          "at someone's heels"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) hot on someone's heels, (snapping) at someone's heels"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hack i häl"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "heel in heel"
      },
      "expansion": "“heel in heel”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "heel in heel"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “heel in heel”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “heel in heel”.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "adverb",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "hack i häl",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "hack i häl (not comparable)",
      "name": "sv-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swedish",
  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Swedish adverbs",
        "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Swedish idioms",
        "Swedish lemmas",
        "Swedish multiword terms",
        "Swedish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              50,
              62
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              49,
              59
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.",
          "ref": "2000 December 18, “Job 18:11”, in Bibel 2000, © Svenska Bibelsällskapet, accessed at Bible.com, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2025:",
          "text": "Fasor ansätter honom från alla håll, de är honom hack i häl.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              94,
              110
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              101,
              111
            ]
          ],
          "english": "After a short car chase, he lost control of his car and skidded into a ditch. The police were hot on his heels, and the chase continued on foot.",
          "ref": "2015 September 4, Håkan Alamaa, “Körde rattfull – skyllde på Hells Angels”, in Sveriges Television, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2025:",
          "text": "Efter en kort biljakt förlorade [han] kontrollen över bilen och sladdade ner i ett dike. Polisen var hack i häl och jakten fortsatte till fots.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              50,
              73
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              48,
              58
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Mariebo IK leads with 24 points, but Bergdalen is snapping at their heels with 21.",
          "ref": "2020 September 26, P4 Sjuhärad, “Bergdalen har chans till serievinst efter 3-3 mot Mariebo”, in Sveriges Radio, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2025:",
          "text": "Mariebo IK leder med 24 poäng, men Bergdalen är hack i häl med 21.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hot on someone's heels, (snapping) at someone's heels"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hot on someone's heels",
          "hot on someone's heels"
        ],
        [
          "(snapping)",
          "snap at someone's heels"
        ],
        [
          "at someone's heels",
          "at someone's heels"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) hot on someone's heels, (snapping) at someone's heels"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hack i häl"
}

Download raw JSONL data for hack i häl meaning in Swedish (2.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swedish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (a681f8a and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.