on the back

Synonyms

behind

Examples

I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back. Dee Dee Ramone

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here. Steven Wright

Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back. Helen Hayes

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

Ill comes often on the back of worse. English Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass. Japanese Proverb

Words in the phrase

on the back

Close letter words and terms

on the attack on the authority of on the average on the back burner on the back foot on the back of