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back-pedal
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back-pedal
vb -pedals, -pedalling, -pedalled US, -pedals -pedaling, -pedaled (intr)
1. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Cycle Racing) to turn the pedals of a bicycle backwards
2. to retract or modify a previous opinion, principle, etc
3. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Boxing) Boxing to take backward steps
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back-pedal
verb
1. backtrack, go back, reverse, reconsider, climb down, have second thoughts, change your mind, flip-flop (informal, chiefly U.S.), do a U-turn He appeared to back-pedal on that statement.
2. break your word, go back on your word, default, back out, repudiate, welsh (slang), flip-flop (informal, chiefly U.S.), break a promise He's back-pedalled twice already.
Translations
back-pedal [ˈbækˈpedl] VI (on bicycle) → pedalear hacia atrás (fig) → echarse atrás, dar marcha atrás
back-pedal [ˌbækˈpɛd/əl] vi (on bicycle) → pedalare all'indietro (fig) → fare marcia indietro
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Cyclists terror apology by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
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Feel like a twit, Mat? by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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