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back talk

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[back talk] {n.}

A sassy, impudent reply.

* /Such back talk will get you nowhere, young man!/

See: TALK BACK.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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