0 rude remarks made when answering someone in authority:
That's enough backchat! You do as you're told.
There are possibilities of tale bearing and backchat and personal spite.
It is something which the ordinary citizen who is not particularly concerned with political backchat can see for himself.
After a good deal of "to-ing and froing" and a certain amount of backchat, that advice was accepted.
They can indulge in as much backchat as they like.
There is some backchat this afternoon.