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fall back
verb
- to recede or retreat
- foll byon or upon to have recourse (to)
noun
- a retreat
- a reserve, esp money, that can be called upon in need
- anything to which one can have recourse as a second choice
- ( as modifier )
a fall-back position
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"I tried to take one of their bottles of water so they hit me on the head with a rope and the impact just made me fall back," Iqbal told BBC Verify.
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鈥淚 didn鈥檛 want to fall back into that, especially as an adult,鈥 she said.
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鈥淎 lot of these tech companies that hired to the moon are falling back down to Earth,鈥 said Andy Challenger, senior vice president at Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
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They鈥檙e more likely to lose their jobs and less likely to have savings to fall back on.
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If all goes to plan, it will orbit the Earth for around three hours before falling back to Earth off the coast of Portugal.
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