answer (someone) back
phrasal verbwithanswerverbuk/ˈɑːn.sər/us/ˈæn.sɚ/
tospeakrudelywhenansweringsomeone inauthority:
Don't youdareanswerme back,younglady!
Denying & contradicting
- abnegate
- abnegation
- apparently
- backtrack
- bubble
- burstsomeone'sbubbleidiom
- contradict
- counter-argue
- Dutchman
- fly
- fly in the face ofsomethingidiom
- in the same breathidiom
- oxymoronic
- rebuttal
- recantation
- refutation
- self-contradictory
- speak
- standsomethingonitsheadidiom
- tergiversation