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单词 hang back
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Example sentences from the Web for hang back

  • This may account for a critical, hang-back disposition which he has several times exhibited.

    Recollections of the Civil War|Charles A. Dana

hang back

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verb

(intr, adverb often foll by from) to be reluctant to go forward or carry on (with some activity)

Words nearby hang back

hang, hang about, hang a left, hangar, hang around, hang back, hang behind, hangbird, hang by a thread, Hangchow, hangdog
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Idioms and Phrases with hang back

hang back

Be reluctant to move ahead, hold back. For example, They hung back at the entrance, fearful that they wouldn't be admitted, or We hung back to let our parents go in first. [Second half of 1500s]

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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