fall back

And when he stops being that, he has something to fall back on.

They fell back on their timeworn, futile tactic of ceding the spotlight to Trump.

"Yeah, that's nice . . . you're the wrong gender," Stewart shoots back, before playfully shoving Barrymore off in an awkward moment that the host leans into by dramatically falling back on the couch.

The Federal Reserve wants to see inflation, the rate at which prices rise, fall back to about 2%.

His mother said he had recently told her it had felt as if there was "no end in sight" because of strict post-parole licensing rules, hence "falling back into old behaviours".