back foot

Government forces, he says, are constantly on the back foot, rarely launching offensives to regain territory.

ISIS was still on the back-foot in Jarabulus, near the Turkish border, where fierce fighting was reported yesterday.

A man never ascends or descends, nor walks at all in any direction, without raising the heel of the back foot.

They'll cheer a losing team, a team that is being driven back foot by foot.

The great thing at first is to prevent the weight getting back on the back foot.

He pulled at his back foot like a man striving to loose himself from thick mud.