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Be finished with, as in I hope we've seen the back of Betsy; she is terribly rude . This idiom transfers literally seeing someone's back because they are leaving to a more figurative and permanent departure. Also see see the last of .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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