"Back of an hour"

[Amps]

As said above its a scottish term meaning after 5 ie 5:00 - 5:15

 

[Buffman]

Im thinking the back of five means before the hour hand on a clock hits 5, therefore around 4.50-5. Never heard it before though.

 

[theukmoog]

Never heard it before but would have taken it to mean the very end of the hour, so just before 6.

 

[Morgoth]

about 5.05

 

[A2Z]

never heard this before..

 

[mame]

about 5:40 - 5:55

 

[asim18]

Back of five: four is one behind five, so four is the back of five. According to my logic.

 

[Raumarik]

As said above its a scottish term meaning after 5 ie 5:00 - 5:15

This.

It means just after the hour. So if you finished your work at 5pm and lived nearby you'd be home "at the back of 5". Typically it only goes to quarter past the hour though, as then you're getting too close to the half hour mark.

 

[Mr.Nick]

This must be some kind of weird northern thing.

I'm northern and I've never come across this phrase.

 

[Raumarik]

It's a Scottish expression, English fiancee took a while to get use to it as she thought it meant before the hour.

The only way I can explain it is if you think about your car and your talking about the car parked behind yours - it's the car "at the back of" yours. Hence it being immediately after the hour erm the car, god I need a drink.

 

[Kennysevenfold]

It's a Scottish phrase, as far as I'm aware.

this and it is half past 5

 

[SourChipmunk]

It really should be "bottom" of the hour, which would be 5:30 - 5:59. "Back" sounds dumb. Just like an inning in cricket, I would think. (edit: do they call it that?)

 

[rmuir]

For me it means no later than half past the hour.

 

[Muban]

As said above its a scottish term meaning after 5 ie 5:00 - 5:15

This.

 

[Raumarik]

It really should be "bottom" of the hour, which would be 5:30 - 5:59. "Back" sounds dumb. Just like an inning in cricket, I would think. (edit: do they call it that?)

Well by most people's logic if you're adding minutes, you're stacking them and they're getting higher - so it'd be top of the hour ? How can you add something and get lower?

 

[Spyhop]

It means just after the hour. So if you finished your work at 5pm and lived nearby you'd be home "at the back of 5".

Definitely this. You can argue over whether it makes sense, but that's what it means

 

[aardvark]

i have no idea what you are talking about you strange foreign man.

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

That's a retarded expression. I'd ask them to clarify.

 

[SourChipmunk]

Well by most people's logic if you're adding minutes, you're stacking them and they're getting higher - so it'd be top of the hour ? How can you add something and get lower?

Ahh, but if I'm taking the minutes away from those remaining in the hour, the stack will be getting lower. Like sands in the hourglass....

That's a retarded expression.

This seems fitting, also.

 

[ash_scotland88]

As said above its a scottish term meaning after 5 ie 5:00 - 5:15

This.
I've also started saying "near side" and "far side"
eg;
it'll be the far side of half an hour
I'll be there the near side of 4.