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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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newcma

Egypt

really it is verey nice

Alessandro_heinrich

Brazil

can you translate this text into portuguese? My English isn’t good.

barbaros3486

Turkey

can u teach another slang about women?

phoogoo

Germany

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Juve Princess

Saudi Arabia

nice word

thank you

Sweetie1801

Georgia

thanks for the new word

simplymay

Thailand

We have Frontstabber here in my country, sad..

nada161284

Algeria

nice verry nice

shapour

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

some one who is screw others and not trustable

peacockblue

China

Is there any other word or idiom ?

phoogoo

Germany

Mrs.VErdin - RU for real?

Mrs.VErdin

United States

backstabbers r two tymin hoes…. my girl britt's step sista is a two tymin skank bc… okay britt is preganent fa ha boy kirk welll even though rene new she was preg. she still went sleep wit kirk…u kno dats a hoe!!