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kick
(redirected from kicks back)

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kick yourself
if you say that you'll kick yourself when or if something happens, you mean that you will feel angry with yourself because you have done something stupid or missed an opportunity. You'll kick yourself when I tell you who came in just after you left. If I don't get one now and they've sold out by next week, I'll kick myself.
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kick yourself
to be annoyed with yourself. I could have kicked myself when I realized that all that work was a complete waste of time.
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Then their drug coverage kicks back in until the total cost reaches $4,900.
So the about-to-be-disposed-of mistress in "Dominion" kicks back by playing an unsettling trick on her love; while in "Abyss," surely the most disturbing of the stories, Frances Bilandic, on the edge of the Grand Canyon, leaves her now-despised lover Howard in a manner he had in no way prepared for.
What happens if an owner simply kicks back and "retires on the job," letting others shoulder the burden?
 
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