echarse atrás

Spanish

Verb

echarse atrás (first-person singular present me echo atrás, first-person singular preterite me eché atrás, past participle echado atrás)

1. (idiomatic) to back out; back down

Further reading

• “echarse atrás”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10