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| Text on Button | THANKS PAL |
| Image Description | Black and white illustration of a person walking awy with a knife in their back on a background with the top half pink and the button half blue and white text with a black outline above the image. |
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| Additional Information | To "stab someone in the back" is a phrase that visualizes betrayal when one least expects it, typically by a close friend. The expression was first coined in 1916 by the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw in an essay for the New York Times magazine. |
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Safire, W. (1989, May 21). Stab in the back. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/21/magazine/on-language-stab-in-the-bac…’%20’’%20The%20infinitive%20phrase%20%3E,has%20far%20more%20sinister%20reverberations. |
| Catalog ID | IB0324 |