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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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- a cold day in hell
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- at one's beck and call
- at will
- bad for you
- catch-as-catch-can
- cut of one's jib
- first port of call
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- grace period
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- have other fish to fry
- in evidence
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