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Lean back   /lin bæk/   Listen
Lean back

verb
1.
Move the upper body backwards and down.  Synonym: recline.






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"Lean back" Quotes from Famous Books



... you're not going to have yours buttoned in the back, and wear holes through that nice ladies' cloth coat every time you lean back against a chair. I should think you were crazy. I've a good mind not to let you go out at all. ...
— Young Lucretia and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins

... and went out upon the veranda. Madame started from her chair, then forced herself to lean back again, calmly. She heard the scraping of his chair as he moved it along the veranda, out of the way of the light that came through the open window. For a long time ...
— Master of the Vineyard • Myrtle Reed

... towards Mary with a strange wistfulness. There was an unspoken yearning in his face that was almost pain. Her quick instinctive sympathy responded to his thought, and rising, she went to him on the pretext of re-arranging the cushion in his chair, so that he might lean back more comfortably. Then she took his hand and ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli

... mind quiet. Lean back on God, and don't worry. It is His affair, and if you have done what you could, that is enough. Alas! how little we have of the faith that can "stand still, and see the Salvation of God." What would you do if you were put in custody for two years, like Paul was? And yet that ...
— Catherine Booth - A Sketch • Colonel Mildred Duff

... wish I were a woman, Ruth, when I get into so much trouble with the girls. Women never seem to have any worry over love affairs. All they have to do is to lean back and let men wait on them until they see one that suits them. It is like ordering from a menu card for them to select husbands. You run over a list for a girl—oysters, clams, or terrapin—and she takes terrapin. In the ...
— The Love Affairs of an Old Maid • Lilian Bell


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