Behind someone's back Idioma
Behind someone's back
If you do something behind someone's back, you do it without telling them.
go behind someone's back
do something secretly: "She went behind my back and told my boss I wanted a new job."
behind (one's) back
In one's absence. The byword about suggests atrocity or deceit. I can't accept you were chattering about me abaft my back! Tom will be agitated that we already fabricated the accommodation abaft his back.Learn more: back, behindbehind someone's back
Out of one's attendance or after someone's knowledge, as in Joan has a awful way of calumniating her accompany abaft their backs. Sir Thomas Malory acclimated this allegorical appellation in Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1470): "To say of me amiss or abashment abaft my back." [Early 1300s] Learn more: back, behindbehind someone's back
after a person's ability and in an arbitrary or dishonourable way.Learn more: back, behind