break someone's back (English, verb)
expansion: break someone's back (third-person singular simple present breaks someone's back, present participle breaking someone's back, simple past broke someone's back, past participle broken someone's back)
Senses:
glosses: Alternative form of break the back of (overburden).
tags: alt-of
alternative
idiomatic
glosses: Synonym of blow someone's back out.
tags: idiomatic
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, back.
Forms:
form: breaks someone's back
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: breaking someone's back
tags: participle
present
form: broke someone's back
tags: past
form: broken someone's back
tags: participle
past