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单词 double back
释义

double back

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verb

(intr, adverb) to go back in the opposite direction (esp in the phrase double back on one's tracks)

Words nearby double back

double-action, double agent, double altar, double-aspect theory, double ax, double back, double-bank, double bar, double-barreled, double-barrelled, double bass
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Idioms and Phrases with double back

double back

Reverse one's course, go back the way one has come. For example, The officer lost the suspect, who had doubled back on him. This term, at first put simply as to double, is used largely to describe a way of evading pursuit. [Late 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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