fall back
verboEn español: retirar, retroceder, retirarse
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, back.
- To retreat.
- To fail to fulfill a promise or purpose.
- To turn the clocks back for the end of daylight saving time.
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At this moment Danglars, who had been incessantly observing every change in Fernand’s look and manner, saw him stagger and fall back, with an almost convulsive spasm, against a seat placed near one of the open windows.
There was a tiny fountain in the middle of the room, that shot a spray of green perfume into the air, to fall back into a beautifully carved green marble basin.
“We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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