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BREAK YOUR BACK

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Literature

Break your Back (To ). Make you bankrupt. The metaphor is from carrying burdens on the back. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Modern Usage: BREAK YOUR BACK

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Lyrics

Weighed down like a beast of burden about to break your back. (Just Can't Last; performing artist: Natalie Merchant)

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Anagrams: BREAK YOUR BACK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-c-e-k-k-o-r-r-u-y"

-5 letters: bareback, buckayro, rockabye.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BREAK YOUR BACK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 52 45 41 4B      59 4F 55 52      42 41 43 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01010010 01000101 01000001 01001011 00100000 01011001 01001111 01010101 01010010 00100000 01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#75 &#32 &#89 &#79 &#85 &#82 &#32 &#66 &#65 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0052 0045 0041 004B      0059 004F 0055 0052      0042 0041 0043 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3652393545259495552236353745

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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