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break one's back en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, idiomatic) Alternative form of break the back of (overburden), when applied to oneself.
    • They're talkin' bout the night Santa went crazy The night St. Nicholas flipped Broke his back for some milk and cookies Sounds to me like he was tired of gettin' gypped 1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day:
    • See, it's not that I'm a disagreeable person. I just have a motto that I won't break. If I'm asked to do something, I'll break my back to see that it's done. 2008, Stuart Smith, The Mad Ramblings of a Monkey: The Nefarious Project, page 17:
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, back.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
broken one's back Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
breaking one's back Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
broke one's back Tense=Past lexicographic
breaks one's back Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

break someone's back