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All behind, like a cow's tail
Answer back
As soon as my back is turned
Ass
backwards
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
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Back off
Back office bean counter
Back on track
Back on your feet
Back out
Back room boy
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Back seat driver
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Back slang
Back street abortion
Back teeth are floating
Back the field
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Back the wrong horse
Back to back
Back to basics
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Back to nature
Back to school
Back to square one
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Back to the drawing board
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Back to the salt mine
Back up
Back woods
Backhanded compliment
Backs
to the wall
Backward
looking
Beat a hasty
retreat
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Beat the
retreat
Behind
bars
Behind
closed doors
Behind
every great man there's a great woman
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Behind
the beat
Behind
the curtain
Behind
the curve
Behind
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Behind
the scenes
Behind
the times
Behind
your back
Bend over
backwards
to help
Bite back
Bounce back
Brand new ballgame ( A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been
behind
ties up the game )
Break the back of something
Break your back
Bringing up the
rear
Brush back ( A baseball expression meaning to subvert or threaten verbally )
But at my back I always hear ( from a poem by Marvell )
California licence plate ( Nickname for tattoo on lower back )
Cast your mind back
Come back for more
Come from
behind
Comeback king
Cover your back
Crawl back into your shell
Die back
Don't burn your bridges
behind
you
Double back
Every picture tells a story ( Doanes Backache Kidney Pills advertising slogan )
Eyes in the back of your head
Face like the back of a bus
Fall back on
Fed up to the back teeth
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 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
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
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 )
I'm
backing
Britain
In the back of my mind
It fell off the back of a lorry
It's All Coming Back To Me Now ( Meatloaf song )
It's payback time
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 up the backside
Knock back
Knock back a few
Know
backwards
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
Look you
bach
Make a back
Make a rod for your own back
Meanwhile back at the... ( A catchphrase from Superfriends )
Mind your
backs
Monday morning
quarterback
Money back guarantee
Mundian To
Bach
Ke ( Panjabi MC song )
My Back Pages ( Bob Dylan song )
My Boomerang Won't Come Back ( Charlie Drake song )
Never look back
No going back
Not
backward
in coming forward
Not in my back yard
On the back burner
On the back foot
One hand tied
behind
your back
One step forward, two steps back
Pat on the back
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
Rally cap ( A baseball expression denoting a cap is a worn inside out or
backwards
)
Rear
Window ( James Stewart / Alfred Hitchcock movie )
Rear
admiral ( naval rank )
Rear
gunner ( slang term for a homosexual )
Reverse
engineering
Right back at ya
See the back of someone
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast ( A catchphrase from Red Dwarf )
Spring forward, Fall back
Stab in the back
Step on a crack, break your mother's back
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 beast with two
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The last straw that broke the camel's back
The power
behind
the throne
The sun shines out of his backside
They never come back
Throw it back in your face
To Hell and back
To get one's back up
Turn back the clock
Turn the clock back
Turn your back on
Two steps forward and one step back
Watch your back
Wet
behind
the ears
Who's that
behind
those Foster Grants? ( Foster Grant advertising slogan )
Wind at your back
You can't take it back, it's out there ( When Harry met Sally )
You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge
backwards
You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours