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Out of one's presence or without someone's knowledge, as in Joan has a nasty way of maligning her friends behind their backs . Sir Thomas Malory used this metaphoric term in Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1470): “To say of me wrong or shame behind my back.” [Early 1300s]

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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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