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double back
verb
- intr, adverb to go back in the opposite direction (esp in the phrase double back on one's tracks )
Idioms and Phrases
Reverse one's course, go back the way one has come. For example, The officer lost the suspect, who had doubled back on him . This term, at first put simply as to double , is used largely to describe a way of evading pursuit. [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
The Wall Street Journal pointed out that Trump's tariffs double back on the deal that Trump himself negotiated during his first term.
Sydney got off at the next station and doubled back to meet up with Paris and Brooklyn at the Gate of Hell.
The winery was named after the idea that he “doubled back and returned home.â€
She punctuated her strong showing with a flawless double back dismount, saluting the judges before she was mobbed by her teammates.
It suggests that the sensible way forward is to double back.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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