double cross 成语
double cross
double cross A deliberate betrayal; violation of a promise or obligation, as in
They had planned a double cross, intending to keep all of the money for themselves. This usage broadens the term's earlier sense in sports gambling, where it alluded to the duplicity of a contestant who breaks his word after illicitly promising to lose. Both usages gave rise to the verb
double-cross. [Late 1800s]
double crosser
A being who has betrayed or swindled friends, allies, colleagues, or associates, or intends to do so. I'll accomplish abiding that bedraggled bifold crosser never works in this boondocks again, if it's the aftermost affair I do.Learn more: crosser, doubledouble-crosser
n. a being who betrays someone. (Often with dirty. See comments at bifold cross.) You dirty, annual double-crosser, you!