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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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Hit back at
Why do we write "hit back at somebody" to mean "retaliate" when the verb "hit" can be used transitively as in "I hit him back" ?
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Perhaps you can think of "hit back" as a phrasal verb meaning "retaliate."
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