to react angrily to someone who has done or said something unpleasant to you
to stop yourself from saying what you think
And he wanted to get some bite back into his forwards.
But you need to bite back impatience to get good results from cash talks.
It was his instinct to bite back.
Paul bit back an angry reply.
The Big Apple is going to bite back.
The show gets its bite back in a Rocky Horror special.
bites back
biting back
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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