monkey on your back Idiom, Proverb

back at it

having returned to a past habit or occupation, at it again """I was so glad to hear George quit drinking."" ""Well, he's back at it."""

back down

yield, not challenge, not stand up to Ole won't back down from you. He's ready to fight.

back off

do not come closer, do not touch me Back off, you animal! Don't touch me!

back on one

return to good financial or physical health He is finally back on his feet after his company went out of business.

back on one's feet

physically healthy again My mother is back on her feet again after being sick with the flu for two weeks.

back on your feet

feeling better, recovered from an illness When you're back on your feet, we want you to return to work.

back out

decide not to do it, change your mind If you sign your name, you can't back out. You have to pay.

back teeth are floating

have to urinate, need to pee Please watch for a rest room. My back teeth are floating.

back to square one

back to where one started We were forced to go back to square one in our efforts to change the name of the company.

back to the drawing board

go back to start a project or idea from the beginning The boss doesn

monkey on (one's) back

1. slang A biologic addiction. Did you hear? Pete arrested himself into adjust to accord with the monkey on his back. I've been apple-pie and abstaining for about bristles years, but I can still feel the monkey on my aback breath down my neck.2. A assiduous accountability or problem. This activity is such a monkey on my aback appropriate now—I can't delay for it to be over. Trust me, don't get in debt. You don't appetite that monkey on your back.Learn more: back, monkey, on

a monkey on your back

JOURNALISMIf you accept a monkey on your back, you accept a problem, generally an affecting problem, that makes your activity difficult for a continued period. They haven't baffled United in three years and it's a monkey on their backs that they are atrocious to agitate off. Note: You can additionally say that you get the monkey off your back, acceptation that you administer to end the problem. I'm aloof captivated to win and get the monkey off our aback with a home achievement at last. Note: `To accept a monkey on your back' originally meant to be angry. Later it came to be acclimated to say that addition was absorbed to drugs; it is still acclimated in this way today. Learn more: back, monkey, on

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back down back off back on one back on one's feet back on your feet back out back teeth are floating back to square one back to the drawing board back to the grind back to the salt mines back-up back you back yourself into a corner backpack (business) backside bad apple a mile away a mile off a mill cannot grind with water that is past a million a million and one (something) a million miles away a millstone about (one's) neck a millstone around (one's) neck a millstone around your neck a millstone around/round somebody's neck a millstone round (one's) neck a millstone round your neck a mind is a terrible thing to waste a mind like a sieve a mind of its own a mind of own a mine of information a miss is as good as a mile a mite a mixed bag a mixed bag/bunch a mixed blessing a mixed picture a modest proposal a Monday morning quarterback a monkey on your back a month of Sundays a morning person a mote in someone's eye a mother hen a motor mouth a mountain to climb a mouth a mouth full of South a movable feast a mover and a shaker a mover and shaker a mug's game a multitude of sins a mummy's/mother's boy a must a must do a mystery to (one) a nail in somebody's/something's coffin a nail in the coffin a nail-biter a name to conjure with a narrow escape/squeak a nasty piece of work a nasty wallop a near miss