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3 août 2012 · "Back and forth" is the more correct idiom, because, well, that's the idiom. There's nothing to stop you from saying "forth and back" — a little voice is repeating the subtitle to The Hobbit, which is There and Back Again, to me — but you won't be using the English idiom, you'll merely be speaking words.
17 juil. 2013 · Back and forth implies movement in a more polarized direction - something that would not be proper having "here and there" replaced with it: Quite unlike to and fro. Here and there, as such, is almost more of a chaotic/wandering bit of movement, drifting aimlessly, as it were. Back and forth denotes a more definitive and narrowly defined set of parameters: Distinctly from A to B.
11 juil. 2018 · Additional context: In writing documentation for a company process, I want to encourage people to share full scheduling information in the initial communication in order to minimize the amount of back-and-forth that occurs. This is formal writing, so I'm looking for a phrase or a term that is less casual than "back-and-forth."
16 avr. 2015 · 4. Seesaw. Noun: an up-and-down or a back-and-forth movement or procedure. Adjective: moving up and down, back and forth, or alternately ahead and behind: It was a seesaw game with the lead changing hands many times. Share.
6 juil. 2018 · Corresponding to "This button can be used to navigate back", we need to say "This button can be used to navigate forward," instead. "Back and forth" can mean "left and right". Depends on the context. Windshield wipers go back and forth. It depends on context. If you're making a faux-medieval game, saying something like "Press yonder button to ...
13 avr. 2016 · You can use biological or aeronautical terms to describe forward and backward through the transverse plane: dorsal/posterior or aft for back and ventral/anterior and fore for forward. Edit. After reading some of the other answers it seems clear to me that you are stuck with either a frame of reference to the earth or from the point of view of self.
In a general sense, "going back and forth" expresses the give and take of a negotiation or arbitration process. We suggested this and they countered that, and so we "went back and forth". In casual speech, however, it often means simply "some events transpired, and I won't bore you with the details." As an example, "I went to the driver's ...
21 févr. 2017 · You can say you have gone back and forth or have oscillated on an issue / on your position. The verb oscillate can be traced back to the Latin word oscillum, meaning "swing," so it makes sense that oscillate is used to describe an object like a fan or a pendulum that swings from side to side. The word also can be used to describe a different ...
18 sept. 2014 · We don't say back and forward. We say back and forth. ;-) Forward and backward are directions. Back, as in a back button, refers to going back to a previous state/position. Yes, that often involves also moving backward, i.e., traversing a sequence backward. But when you say "Go back" you are emphasizing the destination, a previous state or ...
29 oct. 2014 · Wiffle (whiffle) and waffle (whaffle, woffle) seem to involve swinging or swaying or moving back and forth (literal 'vacillation'); the word wiffle-waffle has among its meanings 'to speak in a meandering manner'. In the American use of 'waffling politicians', they either speak in an evasive manner so as not to be held to an opinion, or they ...
