Idioms of freeze in English

freeze your blood | make your blood freeze

to make you extremely frightened or shocked

freeze/stop/halt in your tracks

to suddenly stop because something has frightened or surprised you

Jess froze in her tracks and took a deep breath.

stop/halt somebody in their tracks | stop/halt/freeze in your tracks

to suddenly make somebody stop by frightening or surprising them; to suddenly stop because something has frightened or surprised you

The question stopped Alice in her tracks.

Suddenly he stopped dead in his tracks: what was he doing?

(figurative)The disease was stopped in its tracks by immunization programmes.