in hot pursuit
English
editEtymology
editSee 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.