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go
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on
To fail to keep; to renege on; as, to go
back
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put
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To postpone an arranged event or appointment.
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run
back
To take someone home by car. Give someone a lift to their house.
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answer
back
To issue echo characters, protocol responses, reflexive connection requests, etc.
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back
down
To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously has or has planned to.
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on the
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foot
In a defensive posture; off-balance.
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once you go black, you never go
back
An expression assuming that once a person of another race gets in a sexual relationship with a black person they won't return to their own race.
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a lie comes
back
sooner or later
You can't run from a lie, it will return to you at some point.
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back
of one's hand
A slap.
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sit
back
To relax, to not exert oneself.
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turn
back
To reverse one's direction and retrace one's steps.
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back
and forth
unsure
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at you
Used to return a greeting.
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burner
A section of a stove used to keep some pots warm while one focuses on others.
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burner
A state of low urgency; a state of low current importance.
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forty
The most remote or inaccessible part of any place.
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gammon player
A sodomite.
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in
A betting term from French hazard
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in the day
In the past; at one time, especially a time which is fondly remembered.
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in the saddle
A return to work, return to military detachment, return to usual lifestyle.
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back
into
To
back
up or walk
back
wards and hit something.
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of one's hand
A display of disrespect or scorn.
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office
The IT and infrastructure support services for a company, separate from the public face of the business.
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onto
To overlook something from the rear.
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to our muttons
To get
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to the business at hand.
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back
to square one
Located
back
at the start, as after a dead-end or failure.
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back
to the drawing board
Back
to the beginning following an unsuccessful attempt.
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back
up
To move a vehicle
back
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back
wall
Used other than as an idiom: see
back
, wall.
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wall
The wall at the
back
of a racquetball or squash court, directly opposite the front wall.
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water
A very remote, rural area.
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-assward
Alternative form of bass-ackwards.
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-asswards
Alternative form of bass-ackwards.
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-burner
Having low urgency; not currently important.
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-cloth star
An actor who stands upstage, forcing the other actors to face him and turn their
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s to the audience, in order to gain more attention to himself.
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back
-of-the-envelope
Approximate, rough, simplified.
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be glad to see the
back
of
To be glad to get rid of someone; to be glad someone has left.
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behind somebody's
back
Without somebody's knowledge; secretly.
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behind someone's
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Without somebody's knowledge; secretly.
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break the
back
of
To achieve the greater part of some project.
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break your
back
Definitionto work extremely hard
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bring
back
To cause someone to remember something from the past.
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bring
back
To reenact an old rule or law.
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chase
back
to chase
back
those sales lost in previous months
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Chinaman on one's
back
A drug addiction.
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Chinaman on one's
back
Withdrawal symptoms.
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double
back
To retrace one's steps; to go
back
where one has already gone.
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draw
back
To move
back
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fall off the
back
of a lorry
Of an item of merchandise, to come into a perons's possession without having been paid for; to have been acquired illegally.
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fall off the
back
of a truck
Of an item of merchandise, to come into a person's possession without having been paid for; to have been acquired illegally.
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