BACKSIDE


Meaning of BACKSIDE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

get

They should get off their backsides and let us see what they intend to do about it.

Tim opened his mouth to tell him to get off his idle backside , and closed it again.

Sitting there, day in, day out, hardly able to get off his backside .

kick

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

He was gormless, spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside.

I think I just needed a kick up the backside.

They like to see officialdom and the upper classes getting a kick up the backside.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside .

Mid-forties and creaking with crime-fatigue and cynicism, his backside hits the bed hard.

Now we were both on our backsides in the mud.

Somehow he had landed on his backside and then had felt his tailbone knock the earth harder than was safe.

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