- stab in the back(1)
- {v. phr.}, {slang} To say or do something unfair that harms (a friend or someone who trusts you). * /Owen stabbed his friend Max in the back by telling lies about him./
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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stab in the back — (lit and figurative) To injure in a treacherous manner • • • Main Entry: ↑stab * * * stab (someone) in the back see ↑stab, 2 • • • Main Entry: ↑back stab ( … Useful english dictionary
stab in the back — [v] betray abandon, be disloyal, be unfaithful, break promise, commit treason, cross, deceive, double cross, finger*, go back on, inform on, play Judas*, sell down the river*, sell out, trick, turn in, turn informer, turn traitor; concept 384 … New thesaurus
stab in the back — ► stab in the back betray. Main Entry: ↑stab … English terms dictionary
Stab In The Back — In the early 1920s, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, accused the Jews of Germany of inflicting a “stab in the back” upon the nation that resulted in Germany’s defeat in World War I and the country’s subsequent economic and political … Historical dictionary of the Holocaust
stab in the back — stab (someone) in the back to do something harmful to someone who trusted you. He had been lied to, stabbed in the back, by people he thought were his friends … New idioms dictionary
Stab-in-the-back legend — An illustration from an 1919 Austrian postcard showing a caricatured Jew stabbing the German Army in the back with a dagger. The capitulation was blamed upon the unpatriotic populace, the Socialists, Bolsheviks, the Weimar Republic, and… … Wikipedia
stab\ in\ the\ back — I. v. phr. slang To say or do something unfair that harms (a friend or someone who trusts you). Owen stabbed his friend Max in the back by telling lies about him. II. n. phr. slang An act or a lie that hurts a friend or trusting person; a promise … Словарь американских идиом
stab in the back(2) — {n. phr.}, {slang} An act or a lie that hurts a friend or trusting person; a promise not kept, especially to a friend. * /John stabbed his own friend in the back by stealing from his store./ * /My friend stabbed me in the back by telling the… … Dictionary of American idioms
stab in the back(2) — {n. phr.}, {slang} An act or a lie that hurts a friend or trusting person; a promise not kept, especially to a friend. * /John stabbed his own friend in the back by stealing from his store./ * /My friend stabbed me in the back by telling the… … Dictionary of American idioms
stab in the back — If someone stabs you in the back, they betray you by doing something harmful to you when you thought you could trust them. His best friend stabbed him in the back by voting against him … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
stab in the back — just two months after I got her hired, she stabbed me in the back Syn: betray, be disloyal to, be unfaithful to, desert, break one s promise to, double cross, break faith with, sell out, play false, inform on/against; informal tell on, sell down… … Thesaurus of popular words
