Verb
work back (third-person singular simple present works back, present participle working back, simple past and past participle worked back)
(intransitive, idiomatic, Australia) to work overtime; to make up time off by working overtime; to work beyond a specific shift.
You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components. Edwin H. Land
As in other technological evolutions, relationship tech will begin its innovation in the avant garde, then work back to the familiar. Kevin Kelly (editor)
I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English. Norman Spinrad
I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see. Jude Law
It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell. William Shatner
I first saw Scott's work back in '97 when his first book, Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp, was published. Source: Internet