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To fail to keep; to renege on; as, to go back on one's promises.
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On Sunday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would not go back on its nuclear programme. -- BBC News
Submitted on August 21, 2012
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- hold back
- hold out
- jump on
- lose out
- pull away
- rely on
- ring back
- run through
- speak up
- take on
- throw out
- vote in
- around the clock
- as if
- at last
- bad for you
- bend somebody's ear
- bread and butter
- bury the hatchet
- buy time
- cake crumbs
- catch-as-catch-can
- company
- daily grind
- deliver the goods
- dry run
- easy does it
- fat of the land
- follow through
- get one's claws into
- go red
- gold mine
- heebie-jeebies
- hit a snag
- in detail
- lemon law
- middle of the road
- number one
- off-color
- on a full stomach
- on top of the world
- out of house and home
- out of order
- out to lunch
- own up
- piece of cake
- pretty pictures
- pull one's weight
- quake in one's boots
- rainy day
- run hot and cold
- sack out
- same old story
- scare the pants off of
- seize the day
- smack of
- so much as
- streak of good luck
- sure enough
- swing the lead
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