back of

Synonyms

behind afterwards trailing hind aback astern abaft hindmost

Examples

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Albert Camus

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. E. M. Forster

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. Ernest Hemingway

The fly on the back of a water buffalo thinks that it's taller than the buffalo. Filipino Proverb

Only heaven can see the back of a sparrow. Bantu Proverb

Ill comes often on the back of worse. English Proverb

Words in the phrase

back of

Close letter words and terms

back numbers back o' beyond back o' Bourke back of beyond back of house back of mouth