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Что (кто) такое back-pedal - определение
CALF-LENGTH WOMEN'S TROUSERS, OFTEN CUFFED
Pedal Pushers; Pedal-pushers
![Spanish]] tennis player [[Rafael Nadal]] in Loose-fit Pedal pushers.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Image-Nadal photographié-cropped.jpg?width=200 "Spanish]] tennis player [[Rafael Nadal]] in Loose-fit Pedal pushers.")
.jpg?width=200 "Male in cropped jeans (man-pris).")
back-pedal
(back-pedals, back-pedalling, back-pedalled)
Note: The spelling 'backpedal' is also used. The forms 'back-pedaling' and 'back-pedaled' are used in American English.
1.
If you back-pedal, you express a different or less forceful opinion about something from the one you have previously expressed.
Allen back-pedalled, saying that he had had no intention of offending them...
He appeared to back-pedal on that statement.
= backtrack
VERB: V, V on n
2.
If you say that someone back-pedals, you disapprove of their behaviour because they are not doing what they promised.
She's backpedaled twice already...
The cabinet may backpedal on these commitments.
VERB: V, V on/from n [disapproval]
• back-pedalling
...Britain's back-pedalling on reforms.
N-UNCOUNT
back-pedal
¦ verb
1. move the pedals of a bicycle backwards (formerly in order to brake).
2. hastily reverse one's previous action or opinion.
Pedal point
SUSTAINED TONE, TYPICALLY IN THE BASS, DURING WHICH AT LEAST ONE FOREIGN, I.E., DISSONANT HARMONY IS SOUNDED IN THE OTHER PARTS
Organ point; Double pedal; Inverted pedal; Internal pedal; Pedal note; Inverted pedal tone; Pedal notes; Dominant lock; Dominant pedal; Tonic pedal; Pedal points
In music, a pedal point (also pedal note, organ point, pedal tone, or pedal) is a sustained tone, typically in the bass, during which at least one foreign (i.e.
Википедия
Pedal pushers
Pedal pushers are calf-length trousers that were popular during the 1950s and the early 1960s. Often cuffed and worn tight to the skin, they are related in style to capri pants, and are sometimes referred to as "clam diggers". The name "pedal pushers" originated from the style originally worn by cyclists, because long pants can catch in bicycle chains, but the style quickly became identified with teenage girls.
Примеры употребления для back-pedal
1. But now, he tried to back–pedal fast, writing an article entitled Why I Hate My Uncle.
2. The president has been forced to back–pedal on the much heralded overhaul of immigration, thanks to opposition from his own party.
3. There was early brilliance in Another Country, when Everett was 25; late commercial success in My Best Friend‘s Wedding ten years ago and times between when, as he puts it, ‘I couldn‘t even get arrested.‘ ‘The difference is, one of us is straight and one is gay,‘ drawls Everett, 47, as he sprawls over a chair in a grand hotel in St Moritz, Switzerland, where he holidays each summer. ‘The straight one gets to walk down a red carpet with a beautiful girl and everything works out and the gay one has to back–pedal and do independent movies. ‘To be a movie star you have got to have a good–looking girlfriend and for Hugh, Elizabeth Hurley helped.