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Fight back   /faɪt bæk/   Listen
Fight back

verb
1.
Defend oneself.
2.
Fight against or resist strongly.  Synonyms: defend, fight, fight down, oppose.  "Don't fight it!"






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"Fight back" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I wisht, Ford, next time you bowl up, you'd pick on somebody that ain't too good a friend to fight back! I'm ...
— The Uphill Climb • B. M. Bower

... this place at once. It will be a death-trap when the moon rises. There are some boulders higher up, away to the right. We can occupy them till morning and fight back to back if they try to rush us. There ought to be plenty ...
— Rosa Mundi and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... rooms where Death had stalked last night while he was gambling. Like most men in whose veins red blood runs bold and free, he had no fear of the sort of death befitting a fighter—sudden and violent—but a deep repugnance for those two assassins against which a victim could not fight back—disease and poison. The Brazilian youth's nonchalant fatalism aroused him to the fact that here both those forms of death were very near him; the one in the air, the other on ...
— The Pathless Trail • Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel

... his teeth. It was a hard situation. He must choose between bringing an end to this charming comradeship of theirs, or else fight back all show of love for her, keep it down and under hand, and that at a time when every nerve of him quivered like a smitten harp-string. It was not in him or in his temperament to love her calmly, quietly, or at a distance; he wanted the touch of her hand, ...
— Blix • Frank Norris

... Although you carry some guns, if attacked do not fight back unless absolutely necessary. Show the enemy your heels, if possible. However, if you do have to fight, fight as the true sons ...
— The Boy Allies Under Two Flags • Ensign Robert L. Drake

... that the fellow was down and could no longer fight back, it was time to see that Barbara Parker learned the truth about her gallant suitor. The next time Tom Parker came into the bank Henry called him into his private office and had a talk ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach



Words linked to "Fight back" :   stand firm, struggle, fight off, stand, fight down, fight, repulse, withstand, rebuff, oppose, drive back, contend, recalcitrate, hold out, fend, repel, resist



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