"cool your heels" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
It is typically used as an idiom to mean "calm down and wait patiently," or "wait for a while." For example, you could say: "Take a deep breath and cool your heels; I'll be ready to discuss the problem when I'm done."
They're made fresh, which means you cool your heels for about 20 minutes before you eat.
"You really shouldn't give it to your state government as a no-interest loan, and then have to cool your heels while you wait to get it back," she said.
There is no sense that you're being asked to cool your heels when one of them suggests that you wait a moment in the harlequin-colored bar area, with its Starckian velvet perches and beautifully presented cocktails.
Cindy Bibb THE WAIT DEBATE Patience is a virtue Time is on your side Truisms all, bona fide So cool your heels Though perhaps for naught Since it may well be Later than one thought.
One is to cool your heels until the Monday after Thanksgiving, known as Cyber Monday, when online retailers offer discounts similar to those at brick-and-mortar stores, minus some of those rare door-buster discounts.
You enter through the bar area at the top left of the U (where you cool your heels for a while waiting for a table unless you go on a weekday for lunch).
Here, in "enforced leisure," you will be cooling your heels for the next four years.
If there aren't enough pilots to fly, you may end up cooling your heels on the tarmac, wondering if you should have flown commercial after all.
Odds are, however, that things will move slowly, so an early start to the job search will serve to minimize the number of weeks you spend cooling your heels as a "postdoc" in your graduate adviser's lab.
It may be a call from a debt collector, or the flashing lights of a police car as you are pulled over for missing a stop sign, only to find yourself handcuffed and cooling your heels in jail because someone stole your identity and used it in the commission of a crime.
