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.

by Spectator - Not in SE or ASE June 13, 2014

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."

by Guthlac A February 10, 2010

Put the team on your back

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!

by your friend greg May 7, 2011

Monkey on your back

To have an addicction, especially a drug addiction.

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

by bluestorm100 March 12, 2005

lie on your back and think of england

face it, you're gonna get screwed.

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

by Kfifty July 12, 2005

Putting the team on your back

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!

by f-ck you gumby February 27, 2011

monkey on your back

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.

by Stan, Ricky, Cody, and Alex April 3, 2003