back into
verb- To advance to the post-season as a result of another team's loss, especially where one's own team has also lost. · The 2006 St. Louis Cardinals backed into the playoffs.
- To be forced into a situation by circumstances. · I didn't have any other options, I was backed into it.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, into. · I like to back into parking spots.
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“Oh, I _beg_ your pardon!” she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the accident of the goldfish kept running in her head, and she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury-box, or they would die.
Presently Ruby Gillis started up to take a sum to the master; she fell back into her seat with a little shriek, believing that her hair was pulled out by the roots.
They did not see Matthew, who shrank bashfully back into the shadows beyond the woodbox with a boot in one hand and a bootjack in the other, and he watched them shyly for the aforesaid ten minutes as they put on caps and jackets and talked about the dialogue and the concert.
Eventually, however, Avonlea school slipped back into its old groove and took up its old interests.
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