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Backstabber

Date: May 10 2007

Author: phoogoo

Lesson

My wife, Sayaka (who is Japanese) said she learned the phrase "stabbed in the bacK" yesterday. Can you guess what it means?

stab (someone) in the back

(v.) to betray someone.

Background: stab means to stick someone with a knife so stab in the back is like you are sneaking up behind someone and hurting them. It's NOT a good thing to back stab someone.

Example sentence: "I told Dave not to tell anyone else my secret, but he totally stabbed me in the back and told everyone in school."

Other variations on the word:

backstabber

(n.) Someone who betrays other people.

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Orhwolarbi

Nigeria

One way or the other humans stab one another in the back for one reason or the other. Don't be a backstabber. It isn't a good adjective.

danoosh

Germany

Thank you for this lesson , also i like the word " stabbed in the bacK"

Tikee

China

frontstabber sounds crueler, thank u for both!

phoogoo

Germany

Spill the beans actually means to admit something or confess something. Its a different meaning than backstabber. Other words and expressions that mean the same thing as "spill the beans" are:
come cleanfess up

darabimohammad

Afghanistan

good idiom

jose001

Costa Rica

i think that the phrase
"spill the beans" is something similar to backstabber, isnt it true?

poko

Antigua and Barbuda

SUCH A WONDERFUL VOCABULARY. I HAD LIKE THIS WORD.

naazia

Pakistan

nice word
thnx

naazia

Pakistan

nice n new word 4 me….

thanx

naazia

Pakistan

nice n new word 4 me….

thanx

Red Dragon

Canada

I got backstabbed by someone at work, so sad,,he was my supervisor. what can I say? watch out your back. especially when you get involved in company politics…