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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 someone 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 — 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 — [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 somebody in the back — stab sb in the ˈback idiom to do or say sth that harms sb who trusts you Syn: ↑betray Main entry: ↑stabidiom …   Useful english 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 someone in the back — 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 the river, squeal on, stitch up, peach on, do the dirty on; Brit.… …   Useful english 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 smb in the back — betray someone I dislike him because he tried to stab me in the back during the last meeting …   Idioms and examples

• 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