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stab in the back |
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a stab in the back stab someone in the back - to do something harmful to someone who trusted you. To have your brother tell the press about your private life. That must feel like a real 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. stab someone in the back to do something secretly to harm someone. A lot of women in this business think they have to stab each other in the back to get ahead. By supporting civil rights, some senators believed Truman had stabbed the southerners in the back. |
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He was leaning, with folded arms, over a bale of blankets, engaged in bargaining, when he received a deadly stab in the back, and fell down the companion-way. I have no mind to get a knock on the head or a stab in the back directly I am let out. Hardened in treachery and in all the tricks and wiles of hatred, he could take a stab in the back and not let his face tell of it. |
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stab in the back
