on my backside
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7.0
- idiom
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en el trasero
- Basil tried to hoist himself up into the tree, but the branch broke off in his hands, and he fell on his backside.
- fell on my backside
I might as well have MGM tattooed on my backside.
- I might as well have MGM tattooed on my backside.
Examples
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Toshi feels Jane's fingernails tear at the skin on his backside as they roll off the futon onto the kitchen linoleum and crash into a shopping bag of empty beer cans.
Fiction book (1996) -
I am really on my backside.
Fiction book (1998) -
Put us on his backside.
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All I've done is fall through that damned hole on my backside.
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After losing his balance, he landed on my backside with a thud.
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She tripped over the rug and ended up sitting on my backside in surprise.
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When he slipped on the ice, he fell on my backside and couldn't stop laughing.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward composition of the location preposition 'on' + possessive 'my' + body-part 'backside', so a learner who knows those words will readily infer 'with one's buttocks touching the ground' (e.g., after falling or sitting). This preposition + possessive + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English spatial composition, making the meaning immediately accessible at B1 level.
Etymology
On my backside comes from the clear image of someone slipping or sitting so their backside hits the ground, often after a fall. That's why it means 'with one's buttocks on the ground'.