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单词 a stab in the back
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a stab in the back

A treacherous act or statement: this public disavowal was interpreted as a stab in the back that could not pass unavenged...
  • Outsourcing jobs overseas is a stab in the back to all the workers who have made this country what it is.
  • But the party has no tradition of back-stabbing its leaders: on the contrary, it has been very forbearing of them, even when a stab in the back might have been in everyone's interest.
  • They knew only that it was a rich Spartan colony; capturing it would be a stab in the back of their enemy, bringing the long Peloponnesian War to a quick, triumphal end.
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