backside
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One of the drivers, Adrian, described it as a "good day to be a taxi driver", while another, Paul, said it was a "pain in the backside".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
"Zidane did put me on the backside a couple of times because he's brilliant. But he's not going to evaporate, is he?"
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
And have the most important play happen while some latecomer blocks your view with his backside while trying to find his seat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
A spider can flick off irritating hairs from the backside of its abdomen, which feel like fiberglass or minute cactus spines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025
He could make out Parker Head heading down to Thayer’s haymeadow and the coast; its snowy backside showed between the bare trunks.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
Perhaps part of the reason for the silence is that people aren’t getting the information out of Iran that they need to get them off their backsides and into the streets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
“We are working our backsides off, we feel unfulfilled, and we think, ‘For what?’”
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 2026
It doesn't matter that this is at Old Trafford, because we will still kick their backsides there anyway!
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024
To its embarrassment, the Katy ISD Board of Trustees realized that its “nudity” bans had extended to several elementary school library books depicting cartoon backsides.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023
We did this until our backsides were so sore we could hardly sit down.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
