faire marche arrière — meaning in English
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English meaning
- backpedal verb To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
Senses
faire marche arrière is used for these senses in English:
- back away (intransitive) To move in a direction opposite to that which one is facing, keeping one's attention on the thing in front being avoided.
- back up (idiomatic, intransitive) To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
- backpedal (intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.
backpedal — full definition
- verb To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
- verb To step backwards.
- verb To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.