OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 45456

stab in the back

Meanings (ES + gloss)
puñalada trapera
An act of betrayal or treachery.
Another Russian general — Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev — made his own video appeal, calling any actions against the Russian state a “stab in the back of the country and president.”
Vice-President Dick Cheney viewed the move by Britain—“perfidious Albion,” as he put it—as “a stab in the back,” according to a former senior intelligence official.
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📚 verb • entry_id 45457

stab in the back

Meanings (ES + gloss)
apuñalar por la espalda • atacar por la espalda • coger por la espalda • dejar mal
To betray (somebody).
Speaking on February 1, Cash said: "Today, transport workers who are risking their lives keeping our country moving have found out they have been stabbed in the back by the Governm…
“What concerns me,” Ryder said, as if they’d been having an entirely different conversation, “is that you’re angry right now, Harper. Menoris was a teammate and you trusted her; I…
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