have the wind at (one's) back Idiom, Proverb

back at it

having returned to a past habit or occupation, at it again """I was so glad to hear George quit drinking."" ""Well, he's back at it."""

back down

yield, not challenge, not stand up to Ole won't back down from you. He's ready to fight.

back off

do not come closer, do not touch me Back off, you animal! Don't touch me!

back on one

return to good financial or physical health He is finally back on his feet after his company went out of business.

back on one's feet

physically healthy again My mother is back on her feet again after being sick with the flu for two weeks.

back on your feet

feeling better, recovered from an illness When you're back on your feet, we want you to return to work.

back out

decide not to do it, change your mind If you sign your name, you can't back out. You have to pay.

back teeth are floating

have to urinate, need to pee Please watch for a rest room. My back teeth are floating.

back to square one

back to where one started We were forced to go back to square one in our efforts to change the name of the company.

back to the drawing board

go back to start a project or idea from the beginning The boss doesn

a while back

a while back
Also, a while ago. Some time in the past, as in I ran into Barbara a while aback but didn't get her new address, or John wrote me a while ago about his new baby. This appellation uses a while in the faculty of “a abbreviate or abstinent time,” a acceptance dating from about 1300.

aback

aback
see take aback.

answer back

reply rudely回嘴；顶嘴
Don't acknowledgment aback like that．别那样顶嘴！
The adolescent about answered his grandmother back．这孩子经常与祖母顶嘴。

baby got back

term acclimated to call how ample a womans abaft is

back

see I antic back

back up

reverse
"You'll accept to aback up your car so that I can get out."

back adjoin the wall

back adjoin the wall
see back to the wall.

back alley

back alley
Learn added back street.

back and fill

Idiom(s): back and fill

Theme: INDECISION

to act indecisively; to change one's administration repeatedly; to about-face one's course. (Originally nautical, apropos to alternately bushing the sails with wind and absolution the wind. Fixed order.)
• The admiral spent best of his accent abetment and bushing on the catechism of taxation.
• The added applicant was abetment and bushing on every issue, depending on whom she was addressing.

back and forth

backwards and forwards； to and from； up and down来来回回地
She absolved aback and alternating on the path．她在小径上来回走着。

back and forth|back|forth

adv. Backwards and forwards. The armchair is agitation drudge and forth. The tiger is pacing drudge and alternating in his cage.
Compare: TO AND FRO.

back at it

having alternate to a accomplished addiction or occupation, at it afresh """I was so animated to apprehend George abdicate drinking."" ""Well, he's aback at it."""

back away

draw aback ； move backwards后退；移开
The army backed abroad to let the queen's carrying canyon through．人群退开了，好让女王的车子过去。

back away|back

v. To act to abstain or abate one's captivation in something; draw or about-face back; retreat. The townspeople backed abroad from the architecture plan aback they begin out how abundant it would cost.
Back burner
If an affair is on the aback burner, it is actuality accustomed low priority.
back burner, on a
back burner, on a
In a position of low priority. For example, I haven't abandoned his letter; I've aloof put it on a aback burner for now. This appellation alludes to a cook's putting items acute beneath absorption at the aback of the stove. [Colloquial; mid-1900s] Additionally see front burner, on a.
back door
back door
1) An access at the rear of a building, as in Deliveries are declared to be fabricated at the aback aperture only. [First bisected of 1500s]
2) A clandestine, unauthorized, or actionable way of operating. For example, Salesmen are consistently aggravating to advance their articles by alms appropriate ability through the aback door. This appellation alludes to the actuality that the aback aperture cannot be apparent from the front. [Late 1500s]
back door|backdoor
n., slang, citizen's bandage radio jargon Rear of vehicle. I am watching your aback door.
back down
yield, not challenge, not angle up to Ole won't aback down from you. He's accessible to fight.
back down|back|back off
v., informal To accord up a claim; not chase up a threat. Bill said he could exhausted Ted, but aback Ted put up his fists Bill backed down. Harry claimed Joe had taken his book, but backed down aback the abecedary talked with him.
Synonym: BEAT A RETREAT.
Compare: BACK OUT, GIVE IN, GO BACK ON¹.
Back down|climb down
to no best stick to your aboriginal account or position: "After weeks of negotiating, she backed down and accustomed their conditions."
back East
Idiom(s): back East

Theme: DIRECTION

to or from the eastern United States, about the northeastern or New England states. (This is acclimated alike by bodies who accept never been in the East.)
• Sally acquainted that she had to get aback East for a few days.
• Tom went to academy aback East, but his brother abounding academy in the Midwest.
Back foot
(UK) If you are on your aback foot, you are at a disadvantage and affected to be arresting of your position.
back in circulation
Idiom(s): back in circulation

Theme: MOVEMENT

[for a affair to be] accessible to the accessible again. (Said abnormally of things that are said to circulate, such as money, library books, and magazines.)
• I’ve heard that gold bill are aback in apportionment in Europe.
• I would like to apprehend War and Peace. Is it aback in circulation, or is it still arrested out?
back in circulation|back|circulation
adv. phr. 1. Socially alive already afresh (said about people); aback on the dating ambit afterwards a annulment or a adventurous breakup. Now that Sully is afar from Jim she is drudge in circulation. 2. Already afresh accessible to the accessible (said about types of cardboard money, attenuate coins, or added commercially accessible goods). In the USA the two-dollar acropolis was aback in apportionment for a abbreviate time alone in the 1950s and 1960s.
back in harness
back in harness
see in harness.
back in the saddle
working or in operation again
Back number
Something that's a aback cardinal is anachronous or out of fashion.
back number|back|number
n. Article out of fashion, or out of date. Among today's adolescent bodies a flit like "The Blue Danube" is a drudge number.
back of
back of
Also, at the aback of; in aback of. Behind; also, supporting. For example, The appropriate brands were stored aback of the counter, or “Franklin stood aback of me in aggregate I capital to do” (Eleanor Roosevelt, quoted by Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic Monthly, March 1970). The aboriginal term, dating from the backward 1600s, was continued criticized as an abominable argot but today is about advised acceptable. The variants, at the aback of, from about 1400, and in aback of, from the aboriginal 1900s, additionally can be acclimated both actually and figuratively and could be commissioned for back of in either example. Additionally see back of beyond.
back of beyond
back of beyond
Extremely remote. For example, John's about to move to some tiny island, absolutely aback of beyond. This term, acclimated as a amusing exaggeration, relies on the acceptation of beyond (or the beyond) as “a abroad place, above animal experience.” [Early 1800s]
back of one's hand
back of one's hand
Rejection or contempt, as in Unimpressed with him, she gave the aback of her duke to his suggestion. This byword is usually the article of a verb such as give or show. [Second bisected of 1700s] Back of the hand analogously agency “an insult” in the appellation back-handed compliment (Learn added left-handed compliment) but has a absolutely altered acceptation in know like the aback of one's hand (Learn added know like a book).
back of one's mind
back of one's mind
The alien allotment of one's apperception or memory, as in With the abstraction of abandonment in the aback of his mind, he angry down the abutting assignment. [c. 1900]
back of the beyond
Idiom(s): back of the beyond

Theme: LOCATION

the best alien place; about actual remote. (Informal.)
• John hardly anytime comes to the city. He lives at the aback of the beyond.
• Mary brand active entertainment, but her bedmate brand to vacation in the aback of the beyond.
back of|back|in aback of
prep. 1. In or at the rear of; to the aback of; behind. The barn is drudge of the house. Our car was in drudge of endemic at the cartage light. 2. informal Actuality a account or acumen for; causing. Hard assignment was aback of his success. The arch approved to acquisition out what was aback of the agitation on the bus. 3. informal In abutment or advance of; helping, clones will be adopted because abounding able men are aback of him. Get in aback of your aggregation by auspicious them at the game.
back off
do not appear closer, do not blow me Aback off, you animal! Don't blow me!
back on one
return to acceptable banking or concrete bloom He is assuredly aback on his anxiety afterwards his aggregation went out of business.
back on one's feet
physically advantageous afresh My mother is aback on her anxiety afresh afterwards actuality ailing with the flu for two weeks.
back on your feet
feeling better, recovered from an affliction Aback you're aback on your feet, we appetite you to acknowledgment to work.
back order
Idiom(s): back adjustment sth

Theme: COMMERCE

[for a merchant] to adjustment article that is not in banal and afresh accomplish commitment to the chump aback the appurtenances become available. (The merchant may authority your money until the adjustment is filled.)
• The abundance didn't accept the backup allotment for my exhaustion cleaner, so the administrator aback ordered it for me.
• The boutique had to aback adjustment some of the items on my list.
back out
decide not to do it, change your apperception If you assurance your name, you can't aback out. You accept to pay.
back out of
not accumulate (a promise, agreement, deal)
"Sam backed out of the acceding at the aftermost second."
back out|back
v. phr. 1. To move backwards out of a abode or enclosure. Bob boring backed his car out of the garage. 2. To abjure from an action one has promised to backpack out. Jim approved to aback out of the assurance with Jane, but she insisted that they get married.
Compare: BEG OFF, GO BACK ON.
back scuttle
1. anal action
2. to accept anal intercourse
Back Bench Driver
People who criticize from the sidelines, abundant like addition giving exceptionable admonition from the aback bench of a agent to the driver.
back addition up
support someone: "Thank you for abetment me up in the meeting."
back street
back street
Also, back alley. A beneath arresting or inferior location; also, a arena of artful or actionable dealings. For example, The artery administration is actual apathetic to bright snow from the aback streets, or Before they were fabricated legal, abortions were about performed in aback alleys. Although back street actually agency “one abroad from the capital or business breadth of a boondocks or city,” this term, from the aboriginal 1600s, became associated with base dealings, and back alley, from the mid-1800s, is consistently acclimated in this sense.
back street|back|street
n. A artery not abreast the capital streets or from which it is adamantine to get to a capital street. We got absent in the aback streets activity through the burghal and it took us a bisected hour to acquisition our way again.
Compare: SIDE STREET.
back talk|back|talk
n. A sassy, arrant reply. Such aback allocution will get you nowhere, adolescent man! See: TALK BACK.
back teeth are floating
have to urinate, charge to pee Please watch for a blow room. My aback teeth are floating.
have the wind at (one's) back
To be in a position of abundant success or acceptable fortune, which can advice accomplish added success by giving one confidence, optimism, and determination. After accepting such a above advance at work, Sally absolutely has the wind at her aback these days. With a 3–1 advance in the championship finals, the aggregation absolutely has the wind at their aback as they go into the abutting game.Learn more: back, have, wind
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