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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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- make out
- measure up
- pick up
- piss off
- prevail upon
- quiet down
- run about
- run by
- run through
- take a crack at
- think over
- be of two minds
- catch-as-catch-can
- don't get me started
- down the drain
- fear
- for the time being
- from cover to cover
- get busy
- get into trouble
- get it
- go red
- good job
- grace period
- gray area
- hang out one's shingle
- heebie-jeebies
- honest-to-goodness
- keep one on one's toes
- keep quiet
- kick ass
- lip service
- make headway
- middle of the road
- no biggie
- off and on
- on thin ice
- on top of the world
- one another
- one of those days
- out of house and home
- out of one's depth
- out of this world
- over and over
- red letter day
- rock the boat
- rough around the edges
- scare the pants off of
- second banana
- see eye to eye
- shotgun
- smash hit
- so much as
- soft sawder
- suck it up
- test the waters
- thanks a bunch
- that does it
- the whole nine yards
- there ya go
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