バートランド・ラッセル 英単語・英熟語 b079 - behind one's back

★ behind one's back [内緒で，陰で；（見られないように）人の背後で]

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１．ラッセルの用例

ラッセル英単語・熟語1500

The chairman of CND made statements to his friends and to the Executive Committee and to the press which, in effect, charged me with starting a new movement behind his back and one not permissible within the rulings of CND.
[CND（注：Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 核兵器撤廃運動）の委員長は,彼の友人や執行委員会や新聞社宛に声明を送り,私が彼に内証で,しかもCNDの支配下では許されない新しい運動を始めたと,事実上,私を非難したのである。]
　出典：ラッセル『自伝』第３巻第３章「トラファルガー広場」

２．参考例

You must not speak ill of others behind their backs.
[陰で他人の悪口を言ってはならない。]
　出典：森一郎『試験にでる英熟語』p.70.

A true friend will not say unpleasant things about you behind your back.
[真の友達なら，陰で人（あなたの）の悪口など言わないものだ。]
　出典：『研究社-ロングマン イディオム英和辞典』p.21

They say bad things about his manager behind his back.
[彼らは陰で部長の悪口を言っている。]
　出典：尾崎哲夫『私の英熟語帳を公開します！』, p.167

The decision was taken behind my back.
　出典：Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, new ed.

You eat her food, enjoy her hospitality and then criticize her behind her back.
　出典：Collins COBUILD English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, new ed.