hang back in English

be reluctant to proceed, hesitate; drag or fall behind others who are proceeding

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1. Chesty wants your squad to hang back with able company, see if the nips follow us.

2. Half your army wants to hang back and shoot, the other half wants to get stuck in as quickly as possible.

3. Hesitate, falter, waver, dither (chiefly Brit.), shrink, jib, demur, vacillate, hang back Many people Boggled at engaging in a full-scale war against all the colonies.

4. We don't have time to hang back until the airlock doors blow, so we're liable to experience some turbulence from the residual oxygen maybe even some shrapnel hits.

5. Successful Spell Cleaving >cman scleave [Roll result: 151 (open d100: 88) Penalties: 7] You hang back for a moment and concentrate on the magical wards surrounding a hunch-backed dogmatist, before unleashing your attack upon them! You manage to cleave away a magical ward! The dim aura fades from around a hunch-backed dogmatist