on your back

Meaning

1. Editorial54% of films

   lying face up, back against the surface (sleeping, swimming, sex, or after a fall)

2. Editorial23% of films

   the clothes someone is wearing, often all they have or were given

3. Editorial8% of films

   constantly nagging, pressuring, or weighing on someone

In the movies · 6

• We've been flat on our back for two months, we'd better be careful.Witness for the Prosecution1957
• Now he's flat on his back.Sabrina1954
• I spent six months in Vienna with Professor Freud, flat on my back.Some Like It Hot1959
• on your back.Runaway Bride1999
• You have something on your back.The Lost City2022
• Nothing except the clothes on your back.Big Fish2003
• but there's a tiger on your back.The Watch2012
• You was on your back?Boys Don't Cry1999

Learn it in full scenes

• Witness for the Prosecution1957
  • Sir Wilfrid Goes Home
  • Sir Wilfrid Hides Cigars in His Cane
  • Vole Tries to Hire Sir Wilfrid
• Sabrina1954
  • Linus Saves Sabrina in the Garage
  • Linus Reads Sabrina's Letters
  • Sabrina's Soufflé Gives Her Away
• Some Like It Hot1959
  • Cops Raid the Speakeasy
  • Joe and Jerry Decide to Be Girls
  • Spats Wipes Out Toothpick Charlie

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
• get off back
• have back
• have your back to the wall