Betekenis van:
go back on
to go back on
Werkwoord
- verloochenen, verzaken
- fail to fulfill a promise or obligation
Synoniemen
Hyperoniemen
Werkwoord
Voorbeeldzinnen
- Don't go back on your promise.
- Maybe they will go back on their decision about this subject of divorce.
- I was allowed to go there on condition that I came back by five o'clock.
- Whenever I get ready to go shopping, he invariably starts getting on my back.
- Don't forget to put the cap back on the soda bottle so it doesn't go flat.
- I think I have to go back on a diet after Christmas.
- She was allowed to go to the disco on condition that she was back by ten.
- On condition you are back by ten o'clock, you may go to the dance.
- I promised to give Frank some money and I can't go back on my word now.
- Using the rudder and the jib with the wind on it's back we backed up, turning the bow to the direction we wanted to go.
- Calina needs to go back to the doctor next week. And while I'm on the subject, don't forget to pick up her prescription on your way home from work.
- Since there are usually multiple websites on any given topic, I usually just click the back button when I arrive on any webpage that has pop-up advertising. I just go to the next page found by Google and hope for something less irritating.
- What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice. So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.
- LDCOM also stresses that the State cannot go back on its declarations without harming its own financial credibility.
- The investors’ lack of involvement in operations is not the result of a commercial choice which they could freely go back on — rather it is determined by the actual structure of the package.