back down
Verb
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Verb
back down
- (idiomatic) To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously has or has planned to.
- I was about to sue them, but I had to back down.
- I was going to sue them, but now I'm going to have to back down.
- 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders ↗," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”
- French: baisser d'un ton
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