How to pronounce“backlash”in English
verbyou uh as a United States declare victory without uh facing even a greater
backlash domestically? I mean, internationally we already have uh seen some backlash and some pushback. And so, the situation is quite
difficult. So, the best you can do is announce um that you're in control of the situation, but the reality might be pointing to a completely different
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Definitions of “backlash”
A suddenly reversed or backward motion, such as of a rope or elastic band when it snaps under tension.
A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
“The public backlash to the proposal was quick and insistent.”
To perform a backlash, to lash back in reaction to some cause.
“1894 William Westall. Tinkler. Ludgate Illustrated Magazine. Vol VIII Thrutch factory was a queer old concern. It had been built piecemeal-here a bit and there a bit. There were a new end and an old end, the spinning-rooms in the one being light and lofty, in the other low. and gloomy. Looms were shoved in everywhere. There were a "long shop" with three hundred, a "top shop" with a hundred, a "back shop" with fifty-three, and a "little shop" with fifteen. Never was its equal for gearing. Shafts were everywhere inside and out, overground and underground, climbing snake-like up the walls, and boring into the roofs; spurwheels, great and small, whirled, clashed and "backlashed" all over the place.”
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