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falling back
noun as in fallback
Strong matches
Example Sentences
"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.
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".
Far from all Londoners falling back on dull neutrals, Durran found red was “in the fashion ether at the time”; makeup designer Naomi Donne also goes crimson for Rita’s lipstick.
The interest rate – the so-called yield – the government has to pay lenders when it borrows money from them over a 10-year period, climbed above 4.5% on Thursday before falling back.
He has no time for British pessimism, falling back on a New Zealand "she'll be right" mantra.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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