Meaning of stab in the back | Babel Free
Definitions
An act of betrayal or treachery.
Equivalents
Suomi
puukottaa selkään
Nederlands
dolksteek
Português
facada nas costas
Русский
уда́р в спи́ну
Tiếng Việt
hãm hại
Examples
“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.”
“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.””
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.