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GOTTEN OFF MY BACK and AS THEY COME
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Anonymous  #282568  Wed, 18 Oct 06 10:31 AM
Hello friends, somoene could help me wit these espressions (in capital letters)I have read on the Miles's Autobiography?:

'Even the music critics had GOTTEN OFF MY BACK by this time and many of them were calling me "Charlie Parker's sucessor".'

'... because he was this big, jovial guy, a gentleman, and smart AS THEY COME.'
Thanks in advance, Jo.
  
nona the brit  #282584  Wed, 18 Oct 06 10:51 AM

gotten off my back - stopped criticising me

as X as they come - an idiom.  It means very X. So in this case, very smart.
  
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Marius Hancu  #282637  Wed, 18 Oct 06 01:19 PM
Also off someone's case
http://www.answers.com/topic/off-someone-s-back
  
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