back and to

American  

adjective

New England and South Atlantic States.

1. back-and-forth; to and fro.

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Example Sentences

We are here to push you back and to cabin you, and we hold you accountable to the actual authority that you have, but you can’t cross this line.

From Slate

The bank has launched a process to “take a step back and to look at our processes and to say, ‘Is there something we could have done differently that would have allowed us either to catch this or to catch it earlier?’”

From MarketWatch

Over the past two years he has said repeatedly that continuing the war was the only way to get the hostages back and to destroy Hamas.

From BBC

In other words, the very concurrence meant to dismantle affirmative action might also provide the constitutional blueprint to bring it back and to justify reparations programs under a different name.

From Slate

But there is no doubting her remarkable capacity to keep bouncing back and to keep on plugging away, when others would have been down and out years ago.

From BBC