break someone's back

present singular third person breaks someone's back · participle present breaking someone's back · past broke someone's back · participle past broken someone's back

1. alternativeidiomaticAlternative form of break the back of (overburden).

   Would it break your back to pay me a compliment once in a while?

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   My books are sitting at the top of the stack now The longer words are really breaking my back now.

   2003, Jack White, “Black Math”, in Elephant, performed by The White Stripes

2. idiomaticSynonym of blow someone's back out.

   Fuck all those nights I moaned real loud / Fuck it, I faked it, aren't you proud? / Fuck all those nights you thought you broke my back / Well, guess what yo, your sex was wack

   2004 March 15, Mark Passy, Kirk Robinson, Jennifer Graziano, Frankee, Eamon, “F.U.R.B. (Fuck You Right Back)” (track 11), in The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, performed by Frankee

   Synonyms: blow someone's back out

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, back.