false friends are worse than open enemies

proverb Trusting someone who is, in fact, duplicitous or disingenuous is worse than knowing outright of someone's enmity. A: "I don't know why, but Tiffany clearly hates me." B: "Cheer up, man—false friends are worse than open enemies." I can't believe I trusted that guy. Dang, false friends are worse than open enemies. I know all too well that false friends are worse than open enemies because my so-called "friends" wanted nothing to do with me when I was dealing with my legal troubles.

See also: enemy, false, friend, open, worse

See also:

a false friend is worse than an open enemy
a false friend and a shadow stay only while the sun shines
teach a man to fish
when the tree falls, the monkeys scatter
village
it takes a village
give a man a fish...
a trouble shared is a trouble halved
a burnt child dreads the fire
paw

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