if you get behind with work or payments, you have not done as much work or made as many payments as you should have
to support an idea, project etc, or help someone in what they are trying to do
She claims the publishers never really got behind her new book.
She’d been ill so often that, she was getting behind with her schoolwork.
gets behind
getting behind
got behind
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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