noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
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They should get off their backsides and let us see what they intend to do about it.
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Tim opened his mouth to tell him to get off his idle backside , and closed it again.
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Sitting there, day in, day out, hardly able to get off his backside .
kick
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He was woken some time later by being kicked in the backside quite painfully.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a kick up the arse/backside/pants etc
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He was gormless, spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside.
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I think I just needed a kick up the backside.
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They like to see officialdom and the upper classes getting a kick up the backside.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside .
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Mid-forties and creaking with crime-fatigue and cynicism, his backside hits the bed hard.
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Now we were both on our backsides in the mud.
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Somehow he had landed on his backside and then had felt his tailbone knock the earth harder than was safe.