Lexic.us

Definition of Go back on

1. Verb. Fail to fulfill a promise or obligation. "She backed out of her promise"

Definition of Go back on

1. Verb. (transitive) To be treacherous or faithless to; betray; as, to go back on friends. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To fail to keep; to renege on; as, to go back on one's promises. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Go Back On

Literary usage of Go back on

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"go back on—contd. 1876 A good many patrons went back on the paper this ... 1876 [He said] that lawyers would never go back on each other. back out, or, ..."

2. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"HOW JACK FOUND THAT BEANS MAY go back on A CHAP Without the slightest basis For hypochondriasis A widow had forebodings which a cloud around her flung, ..."

3. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"HOW JACK FOUND THAT BEANS MAY go back on A CHAP Without the slightest basis For hypochondriasis A widow had forebodings which a cloud around her flung, ..."

4. The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: With a Selection from Her by Fanny Burney (1889)
"To go back; on Mr. Crisp's return from Rome, where he had some years, in order " to indulge his passion for music, painting, and sculpture," after some time ..."

5. Trial of Charles M. Jefferds for Murder, at New York, December 1861 by Charles M. Jefferds, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862)
"if you go back on me, yon are a dead man." Said he, " You know me, I am desperate." I answered, " I know you, and you know me too. ..."

6. The Lower Canada Jurist: Collection de Décisions Du Bas Canada by Strachan Bethune, John Sprott Archibald, William Hey, John Stuart Buchan (1880)
"We are not disposed to go back on that decision, and we hold in the same sense in this case. A further question has been raised, which does not seem to have ..."

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