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- n a low, quick set behind the setter
- Chinaman on one's back
- Withdrawal symptoms
- Chinaman on one's back
- A drug addiction
The chances are that he will stay with his first love, the needle, and that the habit will lose the glorious drive and tingle that it had at first, and become the chinaman on his back who drives him like a slave to get more money to buy more junk.
- back of one's mind
- The supposed location of low-importance plans
Wallpapering the bedroom has been at the back of my mind for some time now.
- back of one's mind
- One's remote memory
- back to square one
- Located back at the start, as after a dead-end or failure
After spending six hours on the intake we realized that there was nothing wrong with it, so we are back to square one.
- back to square one
- Back to the start, as after a dead-end or failure
After spending six hours on the intake we realized that there was nothing wrong with it, so we went back to square one.
- break one's arm patting oneself on the back
- To be very full of oneself. Often used as a sarcastic caution - "don't break your arm patting yourself on the back"
We're the best football team in the state! - Careful, dude, don't break your arm patting yourself on the back.
- get one's back up
- To become angry, defensive, or irritable
- have eyes in the back of one's head
- To be particularly, especially uncannily, observant; a perceived ability to see in all directions at once
It's so busy at our office you need eyes in the back of your head to work there!.
- know like the back of one's hand
- To be intimately knowledgeable about something, especially a place
He knows the software like the back of his hand, and can often solve problems over the phone, without looking.
- make a stick for one's own back
- To take a decision that will have personally adverse consequences
Allowing a known trouble-maker to join the team is making a stick for your own back.
- monkey on one's back
- A state of persistent distress or worry or the cause of such a state
'E's got th' monkey on 'is back ower this letter job, said the father secretly to me.
- monkey on one's back
- An addiction, especially to narcotic drugs
Prine's balladeering also includes social comment, as in Sam Stone, a song about a veteran returning from the conflict overseas with a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back..
- no skin off one's back
- No harm to one
If he wants to make a mess in his own room, it's no skin off my back.
- one step forward, two steps back
- A situation in which progress is more than offset by adverse developments
We got all the roofing removed but the chimney was damaged and we discovered that some rafters had to be replaced. One step forward, two steps back. Or maybe three.
- put one's back into
- To make a strenuous effort to do something
When he puts his back into the work, he gets quite a lot done.
- rod for one's back
- The means of one's own punishment or downfall
I can't get over how you parents let your children run riot over you. There must be some discipline in this surely, otherwise you will make a rod for your back when they get older.
- rod for one's own back
- Alternative form of rod for one's back
- turn one's back
- To cease paying attention to something
As soon as I turned my back, he started writing on the wall.
- turn one's back
- To forsake, to abandon; to ignore
He got off to a strong start, only to turn his back on the project two months later.
- back of one's hand
- (Or 'back of the hand'): A show of contempt
- back of one's hand
- (deyim) A show of contempt
- 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 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 square one
- (deyim) Back to the beginning
- back to square one
- (deyim) If you are back to square one, you have to start working on a plan from the beginning because your previous attempt failed and the progress you made is now wasted
- blink one's tears back
- (deyim) Try to keep from crying
1. She blinked back her tears and went on.
2. He blinked his tears back and endured the pain.
- cover one's back
- (deyim) Take steps to avoid attack or criticism
- off one's back
- (deyim) 1. Stopped from bothering one; removed as an annoyance or pest. "Having a kid brother always following me is a nuisance. Can't you get him off my back?"; "The singer was so popular with teenagers that he took a secret vacation, to keep them off his back."
- pin one's ears back
- (deyim) 1. To beat; defeat: After winning three games in a row, the Reds had their ears pinned back by the Blues. 2. To scold: Mrs. Smith pinned Mary's ears back for not doing her homework
- the shirt off one's back
- the maximum one is able to give or lose
I would give a friend the shirt off my back.
- at the back of one's mind
- deep inside someone's memory
- back to square one
- (Informal) starting all over again at the beginning of the process
- be no skin off one's back
- of no importance to, having no affect on one
- behind one's back
- do or say something (usually harmful) without another's knowledge
- get back on one's feet
- (Slang) return to normal life (after being sick or following serious problems)
- get off one's back
- (Slang) stop annoying or bothering a person
- have eyes at the back of one's head
- able to see everything
- have one's back to the wall
- have no other options or alternatives
- lie on one's back
- lie in a horizontal position with one's back to the ground (or other surface)
- lying on one's back
- resting horizontally on the back side, lying prostrate on the back
- not a shirt to one's back
- lack possessions, has nothing, owns nothing
- push one's back against the wall
- give one no options, give one no choice, force one to do something
- put in the back of one's mind
- put the matter aside
- set one's back up
- increase one's opposition, strengthen one's objection
- to get one's back up
- be steadfast about, be stubborn about
- to turn one's back
- walk away from one who needs one's help
- turn one's back
- left him, ceased to participate with him
- was back to square one
- returned to the starting point, found himself back where he started
