lie back
verb1
To lie down by moving in a posterior direction, ending up supine.
- The imaging technician told him to lie back and then remain still for a minute.
2
To relax, to exert less effort.
- You can predict that he's going to lie back and take it easy if you let him find out that there's no pressing deadline from the customer on this job.
- Derived terms
- lie back and think of England