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set one's back up



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Idioms and Phrases

see put one's back up .
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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.

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To set one's back up against such remarkable deeds as these, I call feeble or malicious nonsense.

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"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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