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Katie Anh
2021-12-27 09:12
Set (someone or something) back from (someone or something else) idiom spoken language
To put something or someone a distance from one position to another.
You should set the pot back from the edge of the table in case the kids can grasp it and hurt themselves.
The firefighter set us back from the house to keep us from the fierce fire.
The teacher set us back from the test tubes while doing the experiment in case the chemicals in those tubes could splatter out and hurt us.
Have you set the knife back from the edge of the table? It can be dangerous.
Treat or consider someone or something as the most important person or thing
To put, throw, drop, someone, something, or oneself down heavily and without taking care.
To assign someone to a location.
It is mostly used in the present tense.
Do you see anything wrong?
It was often said by a photographer when he would like small children to look at the camera and smile before he took a photo.
When the photographer said “watch the birdie”, all of us looked at the camera and smiled.
