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back off
verb
- intr to retreat
- tr to abandon (an intention, objective, etc)
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"But I thought when it came to people putting their X in the box on voting day they'd back off. But that doesn't seem to have happened. People clearly want change in Lincolnshire."
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鈥淚 pray they back off and see that there would be real glory in speaking up and supporting 鈥60 Minutes,鈥 which is truly a national treasure,鈥 Bettag said.
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"Things that are given can be taken away," he said, hours before Trump appeared to back off.
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鈥淲e鈥檇 just pick off a few of the bad actors, so the others would go, whoa, and back off,鈥 she said.
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Bill Maher said he wouldn鈥檛 back off from future criticism of the president, but to those in Trump鈥檚 inner circle, it doesn鈥檛 matter.
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