behind someone's back 的定义
- 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: “To say of me wrong or shame behind my back.” [Early 1300s]
behind someone's back 近义词
等同于 secretly
behind someone's back 的近义词 29 个
- clandestinely
- covertly
- furtively
- personally
- privately
- quietly
- stealthily
- surreptitiously
- behind closed doors
- by stealth
- confidentially
- hush-hush
- in camera
- in confidence
- in holes and corners
- in secret
- in strict confidence
- insidiously
- intimately
- obscurely
- on the qt
- on the quiet
- on the sly
- privily
- slyly
- sub rosa
- under the table
- underhandedly
- unobserved
behind someone's back 的反义词 2 个
等同于 huggermugger
更多behind someone's back例句
- Have you tried to access the research that your tax dollars finance, almost all of which is kept behind a paywall?
- Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.
- I think a lot of it has to do with the attitude and the energy behind it and the honesty.
- And yes, someone has already called Spencer a “Small Fry,” har har.
- Think back to the Bush-Kerry race of 2004, the Thrilla in Vanilla.
- I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
- Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
- The boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them.
- With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
- Joe looked at her with a smile, his face still solemn and serious for all its youth and the fires of new-lit hope behind his eyes.