What’s the origin of the phrase ‘Put your back up’? This term derives from the habit of cats of arching their backs when threatened or annoyed. It is a British colloquial phrase and came into being in the 18th century. An early example of its use is from Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1785: BACK UP.

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Make a strenuous effort, as in If you put your back into that report, you’ll soon be done. This idiom alludes to physical labor involving the strength of one’s back. It was first recorded in 1882.

It means to throw someone to the ground, on their back, to their hurt and disadvantage. –

back into someone or something to move backwards, bumping into someone or something; to move a car backwards into something, such as a garage or a parking space. (See also back someone or something into someone or something.) I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to back into you. I backed into the potted plant.

What is another word for put back?

intransitive verb. : to move away (as from a stand on an issue or from a commitment)

phrasal verb. back off. ​to move backwards in order to get away from somebody/something frightening or unpleasant.

It means that you don’t give the message that you do not want to hear the other person’s feelings or point of view, which is how I read your boyfriend’s request to “back off”. Romantic relationships are based on mutual availability and mutual emotional openness.

Back-off sentence example

1. Just back off and try again in a few weeks.
2. I couldn’t get him to back off and I got really scared.
3. Maybe I can get a friend or two to put a bug in his ear to back off .
4. He might like you, but if he has a girlfriend, you need to back off until they break up.

tell off. Rebuke severely, reprimand, as in It’s time someone told her off about her behavior. There is also a synonymous expression, tell someone where to get off, as in When he called back a third time, I told him where to get off.

to stop being involved in a situation, usually in order to allow other people to deal with it themselves: She started to criticize me, then she suddenly backed off.

1 They’ll carry on with their plan. 2 Carry on with your work while I’m away. 3 Carry on with your work while I’m out. 4 I want to carry on with my course.

carry on doing something: If you carry on spending money like that, you’ll end up in debt. Turn left at the traffic lights and carry on up the high street. Her daughter intends to carry on her mother’s research.

We look for excuses for everything and there are no excuses. You look for those opportunities that are going to challenge you. The more expert skaters look for hills with peaks and valleys. It’s difficult to see look for in a sentence .

Set sentence example

1. The doctor set a due date of August 17th.
2. Alex set his cup down beside hers.
3. I hope you set her straight.
4. She set the table and glanced up when the screen door squeaked.
5. There is one set of numbers he changes for the time and he can set the location somehow by longitude and latitude.

When something unpleasant sets in, it begins and seems likely to continue in a serious way: This rain looks as if it has set in for the rest of the day.

1to build something or put something somewhere The police set up roadblocks on routes out of the city. to make a piece of equipment or a machine ready for use She set up her stereo in her bedroom. to arrange for something to happen I’ve set up a meeting for Friday.

[ often passive ] informal. to trick someone in order to make them do something, or in order to make someone seem guilty of something that they have not done: They claimed that they weren’t selling drugs, but that they’d been set up by the police.

There is often a choice in English between a two word verb and a single verb – bring up/raise, set up/establish.

Setup is a noun and means the way in which something is arranged. Set up is a verb and refers to the action of putting things in order or arranging them.

Set-Up vs. Set Up. The noun setup is usually styled as a solid compound (that is, as a single word) in American English and as a hyphenated compound (set-up) in British English. The verb set up, on the other hand, is usually found as an open compound (two words, no hyphen) in both American and British English.

The past tense of set up is also set up. The third-person singular simple present indicative form of set up is sets up. The present participle of set up is setting up. The past participle of set up is set up.

• assemble,
• build,
• confect,
• construct,
• erect,
• fabricate,
• make,
• make up,