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through the backs

English translation: through the backstreets or alleys

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English term or phrase:through the backs
Selected answer:through the backstreets or alleys
Entered by: literary

18:05 Oct 25, 2007
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
English term or phrase: through the backs
"We walk on, always through the backs, always away from the known."
Tourists in Italy looking for bars.
literary
Local time: 09:35
through the backstreets or alleys
Explanation:
off the beaten track
Selected response from:

NancyLynn
Canada
Local time: 03:35
Grading comment
Thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +9through the backstreets or alleys
NancyLynn
3 +1through the back entrances
jccantrell


Discussion entries: 2





  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
through the backstreets or alleys


Explanation:
off the beaten track

NancyLynn
Canada
Local time: 03:35
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 48
Grading comment
Thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Norbert Hermann
1 min
agree  Alexander Demyanov
2 mins
agree  lafresita (X)
14 mins
agree  Mark Nathan
15 mins
agree  Jack Doughty
17 mins
agree  Patricia Townshend (X)
58 mins
agree  Shera Lyn Parpia
1 hr
agree  Carol Gullidge: "Through the backs" makes no sense to me at all as it stands. As the others say, there must be something missing - but what?
2 hrs
agree  kmtext
12 hrs
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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
through the back entrances


Explanation:
How I would understand this, never using the well-trod path, always finding new ways into things.

jccantrell
United States
Local time: 00:35
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Trudy Peters: That's what came to my mind when I read it
39 mins
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