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121Chinaman on one's back — noun a) A drug addiction. The chances are that he will stay with his first love, the needle, and that the habit will lose the glorious drive and tingle that it had at first, and become the chinaman on his back who drives him like a slave to get… …
122take\ back — v To change or deny something offered, promised, or stated; admit to making a wrong statement. I take back my offer to buy the house now that I ve had a good look at it. I want you to take back the unkind things you said about Kenneth …
123plough back — / plaυ bæk/ verb (NOTE: The US spelling is plow back.) ♦ to plough back profits into the company to invest the profits in the business (and not pay them out as dividends to the shareholders) by using them to buy new equipment or to create new… …
124To give back — Give Give (g[i^]v), v. t. [imp. {Gave} (g[=a]v); p. p. {Given} (g[i^]v n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Giving}.] [OE. given, yiven, yeven, AS. gifan, giefan; akin to D. geven, OS. ge[eth]an, OHG. geban, G. geben, Icel. gefa, Sw. gifva, Dan. give, Goth.… …
125Watch My Back — is a book by Geoff Thompson, a former bouncer, who tells his story of the dangers he faced working on the doors in Coventry, England, UK. The front cover of the book shows Thompson wearing a knuckle duster on his right fist, with the quote I… …
126plow back — verb To reinvest profits into a business The dividends were small last year because we plowed back most of the money to buy new machinery …
127buyback — /buy bak /, n. 1. the buying of something that one previously sold. 2. any arrangement to take back something as a condition of a sale, as by a supplier who agrees to purchase its customer s goods. 3. Also called stock buyback. a repurchase by a… …
128Buyback — Buy back auch: Buy|back 〈[baıbæ̣k] m. 6 oder n. 15; Wirtsch.〉 Rückkauf einer Beteiligung (bes. in Form von Aktien) durch den Veräußerer [engl., „Rückkauf“] …
