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ˈback-down colloq. Chiefly U.S.
[back v. 20.]
A complete surrender of claims; a retreat from a position taken up or from a stand made.
1862Gray & Ropes War Lett. (1927) 35 The President's message..seems to me clearly a case of back down. 1886Sat. Rev. 25 Dec. 853 The present crisis, end as it may—in a general ‘backdown’ or a general war—is essentially a small business as compared with much that Europe has seen in its day. 1894‘Mark Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson xxi. 280 It's a clean back-down! he gives up without hitting a lick! 1961Guardian 20 Sept. 16/6 Krushchev's primary aim..was to force..[an] American back-down at Berlin. |