| 词组 | BETRAYAL |
| 释义 | double-cross 1. tr. to betray someone. (Originally a more complicated switching of sides in a conspiracy wherein the double-crosser sides with the victim of the conspiracy—against the original conspirator.) Don't even think about double-crossing me!Max doublecrossed Mr. Big a few years back. 2. n. a betrayal. He always remembered that double-cross.It's one double-cross Max is sorry about. double-crosser n. a person who betrays someone. (Often with dirty. See comments at double-cross.)You dirty, lowdown double-crosser, you!Max is the classic double-crosser. sellout n. a betrayal.Any one of you could have stood up for me. What a sellout!How can you pull such a sellout? sell someone out tr. to betray someone.How could you sell me out like that?She would sell out her mother. step out on someone in. to betray one's lover by going out with someone else.Hank has been stepping out on Bess, and she doesn't know it yet.She would never step out on him. turn in. to go over to the other side, as with a spy or a criminal turning into an informer. (Underworld.)Is there a chance that Max would turn?Max turn? Ha! |
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