All related terms of 'back-to-back'

If you go back to a task or activity , you start doing it again after you have stopped doing it for a period of time.

back to the beginning

If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.

If you get back to an activity , you start doing it again after you have stopped doing it.

If you say that one thing harks back to another thing in the past , you mean it is similar to it or takes it as a model .

If you talk about getting back to basics , you are suggesting that people have become too concerned with complicated details or new theories, and that they should concentrate on simple , important ideas or activities.

If you are wearing something back to front , you are wearing it with the back of it at the front of your body. If you do something back to front , you do it the wrong way around, starting with the part that should come last .

If you want to get back to nature , you want to return to a simpler way of living .

if someone has been to hell and back, they have had a terrible experience , although it is now finished

If you come down to earth or back to earth , you have to face the reality of everyday life after a period of great excitement .

If you are back to square one , you have to start dealing with something from the beginning again because the way you were dealing with it has failed .

to return to reality from a fantasy or daydream

If you are given promotion or a promotion in your job , you are given a more important job or rank in the organization that you work for.

→ another name for back-to-office report

(of something forgotten ) to return to someone's memory

an engine in which the crankshaft is arranged front to back along the axis of the vehicle

to abandon urban civilization

to abandon city life in favour of rural life

If you take a back seat , you allow other people to have all the power and to make all the decisions .

to revert to a simpler method, eg of living or doing business

to have failed completely in what you were trying to do, so that now you have to start again

If you cast your mind back to a time in the past , you think about what happened then.

If you tell someone to get off your back , you are telling them angrily to stop criticizing you or putting pressure on you.

If you get your own back on someone, you have your revenge on them because of something bad that they have done to you.

If you say that you will have to go back to the drawing board , you mean that something which you have done has not been successful and that you will have to start again or try another idea .

a brief report by a worker who has been away on a mission of some kind , providing colleagues with information about the mission

to have very serious problems or be in a very difficult situation, which will be hard to deal with

If you break the back of a task or problem , you do the most difficult part of what is necessary to complete the task or solve the problem.

If someone or something puts your back up or gets your back up , they annoy you.

If you say that you will be glad to see the back of someone, you mean that you want them to leave.

to start again or try another idea because something which you have done has not been successful

to be in a very difficult situation

If you turn your back on someone or something, you ignore them, leave them, or reject them.

in a difficult or desperate situation

to be pleased that someone has gone because you do not like them

If you say that something was done behind someone's back , you disapprove of it because it was done without them knowing about it, in an unfair or dishonest way .

annoyed or tired because something has been happening for a long time and you think it should be stopped or changed

If you have your back to the wall , you are in a very difficult situation and can see no way out of it.

the point from which someone or something started

to have a disadvantage which makes it difficult for you to succeed in doing something