a disloyalty
to deceive someone’s faith
an action of extreme betrayal
to deceive or betray someone who trusted you
to ruin the reputation of a known person secretly
a harmful act against someone who had faith in you
an unfaithful act that causes a big loss of one’s reputation, money or happiness
I have done everything for her, but she left me because of that guy, she stabbed in my back.
Voting against the bill on reservation for the villagers of Scotland at the last minute was a real stab in the back.
I believed that she was my friend. I can’t believe that she stabbed me in the back.
You need to watch out for the new kid. I heard that he will stab you in the back without a second thought.
Filing a false case of domestic violence against her husband was a stab in the back.
There is no origin for this idiom
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