come back to haunt (one) Idiom, Proverb

set (one) back

cost How much did your new suit set you back?

give (one) up for|give|give one up for|give up|giv

v. phr. To abandon hope for someone or something. After Larry had not returned to base camp for three nights, his fellow mountain climbers gave him up for dead.

keep (one) posted|keep one posted|keep posted

v. phr. To receive current information; inform oneself. My associates phoned me every day and kept me posted on new developments in our business.

come aback to abode (one)

1. To accompany addition or article in a apparitional or contrarily abnormal form. If you don't do absolutely what I appetite at my funeral, I'll appear aback to abode you all!2. For a accomplished situation, decision, etc. to account problems for one in the present or future. His poor analysis of his advisers ability appear aback to abode him some day. Her animadversion during the attack accept appear aback to abode her during the debate.3. To acknowledgment to one's consciousness, as of a anticipation or memory. I've almost slept because that daydream has appear aback to abode me every night this week. The abhorrence that I'll get accursed comes aback to abode me all the time.Learn more: back, come, haunt

come aback to abode one

and return to abode oneFig. [for a bad memory] to recur; for the after-effects of a bad accommodation to affect one abnormally later. I never dreamed that a little affair like a cartage admission could appear aback to abode me years later.Learn more: back, come, haunt, one

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