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Phrases

• A piece of tail
• All behind, like a cow's tail
• Answer back
• As soon as my back is turned
• At last. A pickle that bites back (Marcus Valley Pickles advertising slogan)
• At the back of my mind
• Back In Black (AC/DC album)
• Back In The USSR (The Beatles song)
• Back To Black (Amy Winehouse song)
• Back To The Future
• Back at it
• Back at the ranch
• Back door man
• Back down
• Back from the dead
• Back in St. Olaf ... (A catchphrase from The Golden Girls)
• Back in business
• Back in the day
• Back in the saddle
• Back number
• Back of beyond
• Back off
• Back office bean counter
• Back on track
• Back on your feet
• Back out
• Back room boy
• Back seat driver
• Back slang
• Back street abortion
• Back teeth are floating
• Back the field
• Back the wrong horse
• Back to back
• Back to basics
• Back to nature
• Back to school
• Back to square one
• Back to the drawing board
• Back to the salt mine
• Back up
• Back woods
• Behind bars
• Behind closed doors
• Behind every great man there's a great woman
• Behind the beat
• Behind the curtain
• Behind the curve
• Behind the eight ball
• Behind the scenes
• Behind the times
• Behind your back
• Bite back
• Bounce back
• Brand new ballgame (A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been behind ties up the game)
• Breach of promise
• Breach of the peace
• Breach of trust
• Break the back of something
• Break your back
• Bringing up the rear
• Brush back (A baseball expression meaning to subvert or threaten verbally)
• Buffalo Butt (Nickname of Nathan Bookman (Johnny Brown))
• But at my back I always hear (from a poem by Marvell)
• Butt head
• Butt in
• Butt out
• By the backdoor
• California licence plate (Nickname for tattoo on lower back)
• Can't make head or tail of it
• Cast your mind back
• Chase your own tail
• Chasing tail (of a man pursuing the female sex)
• Come back for more
• Come from behind
• Couldn't make head or tail of it
• Cover your back
• Crawl back into your shell
• Die back
• Don't burn your bridges behind you
• Double back
• Eyes in the back of your head
• Face like the back of a bus
• Fall back on
• Fed up to the back teeth
• Feed a dog its own tail
• Fight back
• Fight back the tears
• Get Back (The Beatles song)
• Get back at
• Get back on your feet
• Get back together
• Get back your oo with Typhoo (Typhoo Tea advertising slogan)
• Get behind in your work
• Get off my back
• Get off my tail
• Get the monkey off my back
• Get thee behind me Satan
• Go back on a promise
• Go back on one's word (Retract a previous promise)
• Go behind your back
• Got a tiger by the tail
• Got his tail up
• Grow a tail
• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
• Hang back
• Hark back to
• He's got a yellow streak down his back
• Hit the back wall
• Hold back on
• Holding back the years
• Hustle your butt
• I Want You Back (The Jackson 5 song)
• I scratch your back and you scratch mine
• I'll be back (A catchphrase from The Terminator)
• In the back of my mind
• In two shakes of a lamb's tail
• It fell off the back of a lorry
• It's All Coming Back To Me Now (Meatloaf song)
• Jack's back (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Just when you thought it was safe to go back in water (Jaws II advertising tagline)
• Keep behind bars
• Kick back
• Kick back and enjoy
• Kick butt
• Kiss my butt
• Knock back
• Knock back a few
• Know like the back of your hand
• Laid back
• Lead from behind
• Leave no child behind (Political slogan)
• Lie back and think of England
• Like water off a duck's back
• Make a back
• Make a rod for your own back
• Meanwhile back at the... (A catchphrase from Superfriends)
• Money back guarantee
• More honoured in the breach than in the observance
• My Back Pages (Bob Dylan song)
• My Boomerang Won't Come Back (Charlie Drake song)
• My mama didn't raise no dummy
• Nature or nurture
• Never look back
• No going back
• Nose to tail
• Not in my back yard
• On the back burner
• On the back foot
• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
• One hand tied behind your back
• One step forward, two steps back
• Pain in the butt
• Pat on the back
• Pin the tail on the donkey
• Pin your ears back
• Plough something back
• Pump your money back into Canada (Petro Canada, early advertising slogan)
• Put on the back burner
• Put the clock back
• Put the freshness back (Shake And Vac advertising slogan)
• Put the fun back into driving (Vauxhall Motors advertising slogan)
• Put your back into it
• Put your back up
• Raise Cain
• Raise a loan
• Raise a stink
• Raise dust
• Raise hell
• Raise the bar
• Raise the dead
• Raise the devil
• Raise the limit
• Raise the roof
• Raise the wind
• Raise your game
• Raise your hand if you're sure (Sure advertising slogan)
• Rear Window (James Stewart / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• Rear admiral (naval rank)
• Rear gunner (slang term for a homosexual)
• Right back at ya
• See the back of someone
• Sit on someone's tail
• Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (A catchphrase from Red Dwarf)
• Spring forward, Fall back
• Stab in the back
• Step into the breach
• Step on a crack, break your mother's back
• Tail between your legs
• Take a back seat
• Take the shirt off your back
• Taken aback
• The Bitch Is Back (Elton John song)
• The Empire Strikes Back (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• The last straw that broke the camel's back
• The power behind the throne
• The tail wagging the dog
• They never come back
• Throw it back in your face
• To Hell and back
• To get one's back up
• Top and tail
• Turn back the clock
• Turn the clock back
• Turn your back on
• Two shakes of a lamb's tail
• Two steps forward and one step back
• Watch your back
• We really move our tail for you (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• Wet behind the ears
• Who's that behind those Foster Grants? (Foster Grant advertising slogan)
• Wind at your back
• With your tail between your legs
• Work your butt off
• You can't take it back, it's out there (When Harry met Sally)
• You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours