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set one's back up
Idioms and Phrases
see put one's back up .Example Sentences
And he does not "set one's back up" like René, or, in my case at least, produce boredom like most of the other "World-pain"-ers.
To set one's back up against such remarkable deeds as these, I call feeble or malicious nonsense.
"Yes," said Erica, musingly, "to be libeled does set one's back up dreadfully, and to be much praised humbles one to the very dust."
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