back water

In addition to the idioms beginning with back

• back against the wall
• back alley
• back and fill
• back and forth
• back away
• back burner, on a
• back door
• back down
• back in circulation
• back in harness
• back number
• back of
• back of beyond
• back off
• back of one’s hand
• back of one’s mind
• back on one’s feet
• back order
• back out
• back street
• back the wrong horse
• back to back
• back to basics
• back to the drawing board
• back to the salt mines
• back to the wall
• back up
• back water

also see:

• a while back
• behind someone’s back
• break one’s back
• break the back of
• call back
• choke back
• come back
• cut back
• double back
• draw back
• drop back
• eyes in the back of one’s head
• fall back
• fall back on
• fall over (backward)
• flat on one’s back
• from way back
• get back
• get one’s back up
• give the shirt off one’s back
• go back on one’s word
• hang back
• hark(en) back
• hold back
• in one’s own backyard
• kick back
• knock back
• know like a book (the back of one’s hand)
• left-handed (back-handed) compliment
• like water off a duck’s back
• look back
• monkey on one’s back
• off someone’s back
• pat on the back
• pay back in someone’s own coin
• pin someone’s ears back
• play back
• plow back
• pull back
• put one’s back in it
• put one’s back up
• roll back
• scratch someone’s back
• see the back of
• set back
• set back on one’s heels
• set one back
• set the clock back
• sit back
• slap on the back
• snap back
• stab in the back
• take aback
• take a back seat
• take back
• talk back
• think back
• throw back
• turn back
• turn one’s back on
• when someone’s back is turned
• with one arm tied behind one’s back
• you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours