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Hang back   /hæŋ bæk/   Listen
Hang back

verb
1.
To lag or linger behind.  Synonyms: drag, drop back, drop behind, get behind, trail.






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"Hang back" Quotes from Famous Books



... Marston and papa—that we do make, as Phil says, a regular procession as we walk down the avenue and across the park to the old brown church every Sunday. I don't mind going in the procession, nor does Jack,—unless he's very late; but Nora thinks it's horrid, and Phil and Felix always hang back for the very last, and try to look as if they didn't belong to us at all. Nannie and Maedel go with papa, Kathie and Paul with Miss Marston, and the rest of us straggle along as we like until we get ...
— We Ten - Or, The Story of the Roses • Lyda Farrington Kraus



Words linked to "Hang back" :   fall behind, drag, drop behind, fall back, dawdle, lag



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