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back onto	To overlook something from the rear.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
back to our muttons	To get back to the business at hand.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Back to Square One	A situation in which, one has to return to an earlier state due to certain drawbacks or failures	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
back to the drawing board	Back to the beginning following an unsuccessful attempt.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
back to the salt mines	Resume work, usually with some reluctance. Resume a tedious task , usually with some reluctance	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
back up	To move a vehicle backwards.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
back wall	Used other than as an idiom: see back, wall.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
back wall	The wall at the back of a racquetball or squash court, directly opposite the front wall.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
back water	A very remote, rural area.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
back-assward	Alternative form of bass-ackwards.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
back-asswards	Alternative form of bass-ackwards.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
back-of-the-envelope	Approximate, rough, simplified.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
be right back	Used to indicate the speaker will return in a moment. Often abbreviated in online slang as brb.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
behind somebody's back	Without somebody's knowledge; secretly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
behind someone's back	Without somebody's knowledge; secretly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
break back	To win a game having lost a service game, or during a tiebreak, to win a point against the serve having lost a point while serving.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
break one's back	Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see break,‎ back.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
break the back of	To achieve the greater part of some project.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
buy back	to purchase something already sold, misplaced, destroyed or given away	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
call back	Request for a second interview or audition, following a successful initial interview.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
chase back	to chase back those sales lost in previous months	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chinaman on one's back	Withdrawal symptoms.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chinaman on one's back	A drug addiction.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
claw back	To recover or retake, with great effort, something that was lost.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
could be written on the back of a postage stamp	Is very small or limited.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
could fit on the back of a postage stamp	Alternative form of could be written on the back of a postage stamp	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
crawl back under your rock	leave; get out of here; go back where you came from	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cut back	To reduce the amount of.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cut back	To reduce spending.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cut back	To reduce consumption.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
die back	to wither, particularly during the winter.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
does Dolly Parton sleep on her back	Synonym of is the Pope Catholic	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
double back	To retrace one's steps; to go back where one has already gone.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
draw back	To move backwards.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fall back on	To turn to as a substitute.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fall back upon	To fall back on.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
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.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
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.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fight back	to defend oneself by fighting.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fight back	to counterattack; to resist an attack.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fight back	to repress; to struggle to repress.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fight back	to overturn a losing deficit.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
gentleman of the back door	A sodomite.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get back	Return to where one came from.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get back	To retrieve, to have an item returned.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get back at	To retaliate; to take revenge.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get back on the horse that bucked one	to return to something that previously caused harm.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get back on the horse that bucked you	to return to something that previously caused harm.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get back to	Return to	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get back to	To return contact with	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)

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