Lesson
I don't suppose I need to tell you that 'back' can mean the part of your body that you can lie on or, more generally, the opposite of 'front'.
- I've hurt my back and I can't lift anything heavy.
- You'll find it in the back of the garage.
- If we want to dig that pond today, we're going to have to really put our backs into it. The ground is so hard.
- I know you are my boss but could you just get off my back for a bit and let me work in peace?
- He deserves a pat on the back for the way he has got everybody working so hard.
- I hate people who won't say anything to your face but talk about you behind your back.
- I'll stand in for you at the meeting if you'll work late for me on Thursday. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
- I used to go out to nightclubs every night but I turned my back on all that when I started working for this company.
- My boss is getting promoted and moving to Madrid. I won't be sorry to see the back of him. He was always criticizing me.
- He really gets my back up when he starts saying how women are inferior to men.
- Either this works or the company closes. Our backs are to the wall.
- He played a joke on me but I got my own back by having a lot of horse manure delivered to his house.
- I know he will probably do a good job but in the back of my mind I can't help thinking about the problems he had last year.
- I know my way around New York like the back of my hand.
- I told her yet again about being late for meetings but it's like water off a duck's back with her.
- They set up their new factory in the back of beyond. There is no airport for two hundred miles.
- I don't have the time to do much on this so I suggest I take a back seat and you drive it forward.