单词 | behind someone's back |
释义 | behind someone's backSEE SYNONYMS FOR behind someone's back ON THESAURUS.COM Out of one's presence or without someone's knowledge, as in Joan has a nasty way of maligning her friends behind their backs. Sir Thomas Malory used this metaphoric term in Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1470): “To say of me wrong or shame behind my back.” [Early 1300s] Words nearby behind someone's backbehind, behind bars, behind closed doors, behindhand, behind in, behind someone's back, behind the eight ball, behind-the-scenes, behind the times, behind time, Behistun The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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