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hang back

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hang back
to wait before doing something. We opened our office at a time when other businesses hung back because of bad economic conditions.
See also: back, hang
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Never did he hang back when she sat down, extended her welcoming hands to him, and invited: "Come on, Sing Song Silly.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
His life is forfeit already; he would boggle at naething; and maybe, if a tenant-body was to hang back he would get a dirk in his wame.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
From this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will not hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a whetstone?
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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