Meaning of small of the back | Babel Free

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The relatively narrow, lumbar region of the back.

Examples

“The plan was not feasible, for making a ninety-degree turn would have been impossible without nickel-alloy swivels inserted in the small of every man's back, and Lieutenant Scheisskopf was not sanguine at all about obtaining that many nickel-alloy swivels from Quartermaster or enlisting the co-operation of the surgeons at the hospital.”

“He remembered the smell of her skin in the overheated darkness of a coffin near the port, her fingers locked across the small of his back.”

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