a stab in the back

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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 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 —    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

• (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 …   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

• (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 …   Useful english dictionary

• a 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… …   Useful english dictionary

• a 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 …   English dictionary

• 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