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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I spotted “falls on the heels of” for “follows on the heels of” at: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/06 … of-no.html
It turns out that it’s pretty common—“falls on the heels” gets 705 hits on Google (compared to 138,000 for “follows on the heels”).
This is clearly a mishearing of “follows” as “falls” and a reinterpretation of the idiom that makes sense in its way—if you “fall on” the heels of someone, you must be following close behind.
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