stab in the back

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Meaning: An act ofbetrayalortreachery.2009March 30,Dick Cheney, quotee, “Albion, I stab at thee”, inThe Economist‎[1],→ISSN:Vice-President Dick Cheney viewed the move by Britain—“perfidious Albion,” as he put it—as “astab in the back,” according to a former senior intelligence official.2023June 28, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, “Russian General Knew About Mercenary Chief’s Rebellion Plans, U.S. Officials Say”, inThe New York Times‎[2],→ISSN:Another Russian general — Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev — made his own video appeal, calling any actions against the Russian state a “stab in the backof the country and president.”

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