КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «GET OFF SOMEONE'S BACK»
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
4. get off someone's back 0 See OFF sOMEONE's BACK. get off the dime Take
action, especially following a time of indecision or delay. For example, It's time
this administration got ofl'the dime and came up with a viable budget.
NOW YOU DO IT: (Create a sentence using "From where I sit...11) get off
someone's back (to) exp. to stop nagging someone. EZPZM The boss calls me
every hour to ask me if I've finished my assignment. I wish he'd get off my back! r^
TBTUm ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
pitch into eight numbered sections for the purpose of early radio commentaries.
back the wrong horse make a wrong or inappropriate choice. be on (or get off)
someone's back nag (or stop nagging) someone. informal behind someone's
back ...
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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary
... to see the back of her - she's so bad-tempered!; She was glad to set tke back of
that unreliable old car. behind someone's back see behind, break the back of .u*
break, get off someone's back (inf) to stop annoying someone: Get off my back!
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
... back of (something) to complete the heaviest or most difficult part of (a task etc):
Now that you've broken the back of the job, have a rest. fed to the back teeth see
fed. get off (someone's) back (inf) to stop annoying (someone): Get off my back!
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
... back of (something) to complete the heaviest or most difficult part of (a task etc):
Now that you've broken the back of the job, have a rest. fed to the back teeth see
fed. get off (someone's) back (inf) to stop annoying (someone): Get off my back!
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Advanced Learner's Dictionary
... or reserve. behind someone's back without someone's knowledge or
agreement, in secret, and deceitfully: Why did you go behind my back and never
ask my permission9 get off someone's back to stop bothering or annoying
someone. have ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Hence, get off (someone's) back, to cease from nagging or criticising or urging, as
in the exasperated 'Get off my back, will you!': since ca. 1930. (Common also in
US.)—4. In on (one's) back, penniless; utterly puzzled: late C.19-20. Nautically ...
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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and ...
get off someone's back to cease annoying, aggravating, nagging or
criticisingsomeone. Often inthe exasperated imperative 'Getoffmy back!' UK,1961.
▻ geton someone's back to annoy, aggravate,nag orcriticise someone
AUSTRALIA, 1959.
Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell, 2007
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The Chambers Dictionary
... backward; bend, fall or lean over backwards (colloq) to go even to the point of
personal discomfort so as to be accommodating or to please; break the back of to
overburden; to accomplish the hardest part of; get off someone's back to stop ...
