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backs

Meaning

Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. William O. Douglas

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. Karl Marx

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined. Jack Kerouac

Republicans will do anything for the poor except get off their backs. American Proverb

If we stand tall it is because we stand on the backs of those who came before us. Yoruba Proverb

Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. Dutch Proverb

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