on your back

Usually used in a restaurant setting, it bears the connotation of, "I'm behind you."

Server: "On your back!"
Host: Moves to avoid being contacted.

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monkey on your back

To have some very burdensome nuisance you have to put up with--in a sense wider than just a drug or other addiction.

"That huge credit card payment is a real monkey on his back." "Trying to sell that white elephant must be a monkey on your back."

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One's will to carry the team, and not let any obstacle come in between.

I can't believe we were about to lose that tennis match. Way to put the team on your back and win it all!

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To have an addicction, especially a drug addiction.

Man, he's got a monkey on him back! He's so wasted!

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when james told me he was going to join bally total fitness, i told him to lie on his back and think of england.

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To score a touchdown with a broken leg. Like Green Bay wide receiver Greg Jennings.

Dawg you gotta be putting the team on your back man, like Greg Jennings!

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To have a deep, uncontrollable desire to something such as Gamble, Smoke, or Drink.

Man he has that Drinking monkey on his back, it is 9:30 in the morrning and he's already drunk.

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