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go back on idiom

Fail to honor or keep, as in You can't go back on your word, or One should never go back on a promise. [Mid-1800s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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go back
go away
go at
go astray
go around
go ape
go and
go amok
go along
go all the way

go bad
go ballistic
go bananas
go begging
go belly-up
go berserk
go broke
go by
go down
go down in history

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