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词组 back and fill
释义

back and fill

1 go in contrary directions

2 be indecisive, temporize, vacillate. chiefly North American

☞ The expression was originally nautical: to back is to sail backwards, to fill, to sail forwards (from the notion of the wind filling the sails).

2003Commonweal Even as she wants to advance boldly, therefore, she is required by the evidence to back and fill, leaving the reader with a bewildering combination of affirmation and qualification.

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