take back

take back {v.}

To change or deny something offered, promised, or stated; admit to making a wrong statement.

I take back my offer to buy the house now that I've had a good look at it.

I want you to take back the unkind things you said about Kenneth.

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[back] See: [BACK OF] or [IN BACK OF], [BEHIND ONE'S BACK], [BRUSH BACK], [COME BACK], [CUT BACK], [DOUBLE BACK], [DRAW BACK], [DROP BACK]. [EYES IN THE BACK OF ONE'S HEAD], […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

back-to-back

[back-to-back] {adv.} 1. Immediately following. * /The health clinic had back-to-back appointments for the new students during the first week of school./ 2. Very close to, as if touching. * […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[on one's back] {adj. phr.}, {informal} Making insistent demands of you; being an annoyance or bother. * /My wife has been on my back for weeks to fix the front […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[back of] or [in back of] {prep.} 1. In or at the rear of; to the back of; behind. * /The garage is hack of the house./ * /Our car […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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