Go Back On: (1)

Grammar Tense Structure:

• Present Tense: go / goes back on
• Past Tense: went back on
• Past Participle: gone back on
• Present Participle: going back on

1: When you make a promise but decide later not to do it, we say you GO BACK ON it.

non-separable phrasal verb

• On the day before we left for holiday, she went back on her promise of looking after my dog while we were away!
• She is not to be trusted, she’s always going back on her word time and time again.
• Do you believe she will do what she says or will she go back on her word?