"on the heels of"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Someone at CNN thinks this means "in conjunction with; along with."

Thus yesterday's climate-change march in NYC "came on the heels of" John
Kerry's related statement to the UN "later today."

Your mighty intellects are no match for the power of Inglish.

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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