| 词汇 | back water |
| 词源 | back water. When a steamboat’s paddle wheel is reversed it is said to back water, or move backward. The expression came into use with the rise of the steamboat in the early 1800s and was soon being used figuratively to mean “to reverse one’s posi- tion on a subject, withdraw from a situation, or retract a statement.” |
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