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Lay by the Heels(To). To render powerless. The allusion is to the stocks, in which vagrants and other petty offenders were confined by the ankles, locked in what was called the stocks, common, at one time, to well-nigh every village in the land. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Lay by the Heels from Infoplease:
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