in the rear

in the rear

1. In an area physically behind or at the back of something else. We keep those items in the rear of the store—here, let me show you.
2. In a particular area that only some people, often employees, have access to. That coffeemaker is completely out of stock—we don't even have any in the rear. Jason's in the rear—do you want me to get him for you?
See also: rear
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

in the rear

located in the space or area behind someone or something. The waiter told me that the bathrooms were in the rear. All deliveries must be made in the rear.
See also: rear
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • grapple
  • grappling
  • suck (someone or something) into (something)
  • suck into
  • brace (oneself) for (something)
  • brace oneself for
  • tear loose from (someone or something)
  • remain under
  • remain under (something)
  • in the wrong place at the wrong time
References in classic literature
Brooke's success must depend either on plumpers which would leave Bagster in the rear, or on the new minting of Tory votes into reforming votes.
A member of the public who did not want to be named said: "There were six cars in the rear car park.
Investigators said they have obtained a video image of a man attempting to open a locked door in the rear of a Centennial Crossing house in the early morning hours Sunday.
A man was seen in the rear yard but made off after he was disturbed by a neighbour.
"And at 1.25am on Monday persons were spotted in the rear garden of a property in Newcomen Road, Bedworth.
Master bedroom suite and second bedroom in the rear; third bedroom is off the living-room to the front, separated by French doors.
As a trio of life-size ersatz woodpeckers in the rear gallery also demonstrated, Middlebrook aims not only to highlight the emptiness of our relation to nature but also to reinvest it with content (or at least a gesture toward it).
the instructor pilot in the rear cockpit took the controls and climbed as he transitioned to 100 knots.
There was at least one other figure standing in the rear lane.