get off back

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to stop annoying sb, for example by criticizing them, or asking them to do sth

   Get off my back, Leona!

   They'd get off my back and give me some slack.

In the movies · 8

• What about you, fella?Apocalypse Now1979
• Mama, I wish you'd get off Daddy's back.Steel Magnolias1989
• You don't know that, motherfucker. Now get off my back, all right.Trading Places1983
• Just get off my back.The Internship2013
• Get off my back, Leona!Beaches1988
• l mean, just get off my back, Father.Year One2009
• They'd get off my back and give me some slack.What's Love Got to Do with It1993
• Just lay off him. Get off my back.Manchester by the Sea2016

Learn it in full scenes

• Steel Magnolias1989
  • Truvy Hires Annelle
  • Truvy Hires Annelle
  • Shelby's Wedding Morning
• Beaches1988
  • CC Meets Hillary on the Boardwalk
  • CC Melts Down After Losing the Part
  • CC and Hillary Grow Up by Letter

From the same entry

• at the back of your mind
• the back of beyond
• back to back
• back to front
• be glad, to see the back of
• behind back
• be on back
• break the back of
• get back up
• have back
• have your back to the wall
• off the back of a lorry

More idioms

• be even
• as it turned out
• made for other
• in future
• what is doing
• if you like
• be all the same to
• break the ice
• it's not my problem
• play safe
• under the impression that
• be bothered