go back on

1. Fail to honor or keep, as in You can't go back on your word, or One should never go back on a promise. [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

Mr Cameron added that the mare of the first animal they lost "went back on her own to the area she was last with her foal".

From BBC

A castle on a Hebridean island has gone back on the market after a previous potential sale collapsed in a row between a millionaire businessman and a Scottish government minister.

From BBC

It doesn't make me feel confident going back on to the pitch.

From BBC

Maybe that’s what we need, something or someone to stop us in our tracks and remind us that it’s okay to take a beat and feel it all before we go back on our way.

From Salon

But after a six-year extradition process, he went back on the run by escaping through a railway station toilet window and now eight years later is believed to be in the Middle East.

From BBC