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stab in the back

noun

Definitions

  1. An act of betrayal or treachery.

    • 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.”

  2. To betray (somebody).

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA