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set back |
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set someone back (some amount of money) to cost someone (an amount of money). This coat set me back about $250. That fancy dinner at the restaurant last night really set us back. set something back and put something back to set something, like a timepiece, to a lower number. (Put is less common.) It's that time of year when you must set your clocks and watches back! Set back your clock tonight. I have to put all the clocks back. set somebody/something back also set back somebody/something to delay or stop the progress of someone or something Then I needed a second operation, which really set me back. New violence has set back the peace process. set you back something to cost you an amount of money A marriage license will only set you back $30. The gas-powered generator would set him back at least $5 million. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Of course, this only set back the day of reckoning and seduced us into spending more than we would have spent on a cash basis. The vicarage was set back from the highroad to Tercanbury, and from the dining-room one saw a semicircular strip of lawn and then as far as the horizon green fields. He was a rather hard lot, take him how you might; but then you couldn't fairly ex- pect a man to be sweet that had been set back so. |
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