バートランド・ラッセル 英単語・英熟語 b079
★ behind one's back [内緒で,陰で;(見られないように)人の背後で]
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」
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.