go back on

English

Verb

go back on (see inflection at go)

1. (transitive) To be treacherous or faithless to; betray.

   to go back on friends

2. (transitive) To fail to keep; to renege on.

   to go back on one's promises

   • BBC News

     On Sunday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would not go back on its nuclear programme.

Translations

be treacherous or faithless to; betray

• German: hintergehen (de), betrügen (de), verraten (de), im Stich lassen (de)
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fail to keep, renege on

• Finnish: perua (fi)
• German: zurücknehmen (de), rückgängig machen
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: υπαναχωρώ (el) (ypanachoró), ανακαλώ (el) (anakaló)