a stab in the back
1stab 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 ( …
2stab 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 …
3stab in the back — ► stab in the back betray. Main Entry: ↑stab …
4Stab-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… …
5Stab 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 …
6(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 …
7stab 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 …
8(a) stab in the back — a stab in the back phrase behaviour that is bad and not loyal, especially from someone you trusted Being replaced by her was a real stab in the back. Thesaurus: disloyaltysynonym Main entry: stab * * * a ˌstab in the ˈback …
9a stab in the back — a treacherous act or statement * * * a stab in the back see ↑stab, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑back a stab in the back : an action or way of behaving that hurts someone who trusts you : an act of betrayal I can t believe that someone I had helped and… …
10a stab in the back — behaviour that is bad and not loyal, especially from someone you trusted Being replaced by her was a real stab in the back …
