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单词 behind-backs
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behind-backs
9. behind (one's) back has been used as a more emphatic expression for behind (one), in all senses; but now spec. in sense A. 2, in which behind-backs also occurs in Scottish use.
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1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxii. 13 Abraham..sawe bihynd his bak a wether among the thornes.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 980 Þe balleful burde..Blusched byhynden her bak.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur (1816) I. 307 To say of me wrong or shame behind my back.
1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxiii. 35 Thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behinde thy backe [1388 Wyclif, behynde thi bodi] . View more context for this quotation
1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 78 The Father and the Son are speaking of thee behind backs.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 109. ⁋5 Sir Andrew Freeport has said behind my Back, that, etc.
1782 T. Newton Wks. II. xxii. 460 The flatterer will..trumpet forth your praises behind your back.
c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches IV. 14 Tibby was sitting behind backs enjoying the meal.
1864 M. B. Smedley Linnet's Trial I. iii. i. 303 I should be very sorry not to defend people behind their backs.
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