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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 you	to return to something that previously caused harm.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get back to	To return contact with	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get back to	Return to	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get someone's back up	To annoy a person either deliberately or inadvertently.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
give back	To contribute money, goods, or, especially, services for charitable purposes, as if in return for one's own success.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
give back	To return, restore (a thing to its original owner or location etc.).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
give back	To recede; to retreat.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
give someone a pat on his back	To compliment	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Give Someone the Shirt off Your Back	To have a big heart, to give generously	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
go back in time	To talk about history or the past.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hang back	To wait; to falter; to avoid proceeding through reluctance.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hark back	Of hounds, to retrace a course in order to pick up a lost scent.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hark back	To return or revert, to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
harken back	Alternative form of hearken back	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
have someone's back	to always be ready to support, protect or help someone	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hearken back	To turn back to an earlier topic or circumstance.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hearken back	To go back to something as an origin or source.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
his back is up	He is offended or angry; an expression or idea taken from a cat; that animal, when angry, always raising its back. An allusion also sometimes used to jeer a crooked man.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hit back	To retaliate	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
I want my money back	Said to demand a refund for a product or service.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
jimmy jack should have been halfway there and back	off of an old country western show	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
keep back	To hold back; to refuse to give or share.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
keep back	To restrict or restrain.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
keep back	To prevent from advancing in a course.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
lay back	To make a short backwards pass to a teammate in an attacking position.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
lay back	To lie down on one's back; to lie back.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
lie back	To relax, to exert less effort	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
lie back	To lie down from a sitting position	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
lie back and think of england	. "think of England" refers to the importance of children.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
lie back and think of england	Used to preface any unpleasant but inevitable experience.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
like the back end of a bus	Very unattractive.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
meantime, back at the ranch	A reminder during conversation, things are alright back at the ranch/home/headquarters, business-place, office et al.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
my back teeth are floating	I have a strong need to urinate.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
off the back foot	From a defensive position.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the back burner	Not immediate; inactive; receiving less than full or regular attention.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the back of	as a result of; after; subsequent to.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
paint your back door red!	Fixing to get hiney whooped!	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pat on the back	To praise or congratulate.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pat on the back	Praise, congratulations.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pay back	to pay an amount of money owed to another, to repay	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pay back	to exact revenge	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
peg back	To equalize against; to prevent the opposition from winning.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pin back	To keep at a distance	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
play back	To replay a recording.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
plough back	To reinvest profits into a business	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
plow back	To reinvest profits into a business	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull back	Used other than as an idiom. To pull in a backwards direction	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)

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