TO FALL BACK

Definition: TO FALL BACK

TO FALL BACK

1. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: TO FALL BACK

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Provision	Have in store, have in reserve; keep, keep by one, keep on foot, keep on hand; have to fall back upon; store; provide against a rainy day; (economy).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: TO FALL BACK

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

Yes, but see, the clock stops ringing once I throw it against the wall giving me ample time to fall back to sleep. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

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

Use in Literature: TO FALL BACK

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The column, compelled to fall back, remained massed in the street, unsheltered, but terrible, and replied to the redoubt by a fearful fusilade.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions: TO FALL BACK

Expressions using "TO FALL BACK": have to fall back upon ♦ to fall back on ♦ To fall back upon. Additional references.
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Modern Translation: TO FALL BACK

Language		Translations for "TO FALL BACK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		zurückfallen (drop back, drop behind, fall back, fall behind, move down, reflect, relapse, return, revert, to relapse). (various references)

Hungarian		visszahanyatlik, visszaesik (fall back, retrogress, to ebb, to lapse back, to recidivate, to relapse, to retrograde), meghátrál (give ground, to back down, to blench, to eat crow, to face about, to flinch, to get cold feet, to give place, to lower one's flag, to make place, to recoil, to show the white feather, to stick at, to strike one's flag, to take the back track), hanyatt esik (to bump down, to fall over), hátrahanyatlik, hátraesik, hátradől (to lie back, to sit back). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay allfay ackbay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: TO FALL BACK

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	2. la. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	recedo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Anagrams: TO FALL BACK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-f-k-l-l-o-t"
	-2 letters: fallback.
	-3 letters: catfall, fatback.
	-4 letters: abolla, afloat, ballot, catalo, cobalt.
	-5 letters: aback, abaft, alack, allot, aloft, atoll, black, bloat, block, cabal, calla, cloak, coala, fatal, flack, float, flock, flota, focal, koala, local, octal, tabla.
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