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Idioms and Phrases

see eyes in the back of one's head ; stab in the back .
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Example Sentences

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October 2020: Pham was stabbed in the back during an altercation outside a San Diego strip club when he told patrons engaged in an argument near his car to move along.

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The normally bustling border crossing of Kasumulu remained noticeably quieter than usual with drivers seen relaxing in the shade of trees, while others played draughts or lounged in the back of their lorries.

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Mr Thompson was shot in the back by a masked assailant in December as he was walking into a hotel where the company he led was holding an investors' meeting.

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To accommodate Malcolm taking her usual place in the back row, Jade Konkel moves into the second row, her third different starting position of the tournament.

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"When he failed to do so, they pumped three bullets into him, one in the head, one behind the ear and another in the back," she said.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from 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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