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talk about her behind her back

talk about her behind her back

Date: May 27 2004

Quote

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“I sort of had no luck with boys, so if I liked a boy and he liked some other girl, I would be very jealous and talk about her behind her back.”
- Tina Fey, actor and screenwriter, talking about her days in high school.

Definition

1. Definition - Study the definition.

make bad comments about her without her knowing; degrade her before other people while she is not present; speak ill of her to other people without her knowing about it; say bad things about her to other people (rather than to her directly)

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

Hopefully, you’ll never talk about anyone behind his/her back or have anyone talk about you behind your back. Talking about someone behind his/her back is a mean thing to do. It causes problems between people and can destroy friendships.
You can use the term “talk about her behind her back” to describe a situation in which a person is saying bad things about another person, but not saying anything directly to the person. If someone is being secretive in the way she’s trying to degrade another, she is “talking about her behind her back.”

Examples

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””Kevin is such a jerk. He acts like he’s my friend, but then I find out that he’s talking about me behind my back. I don’t understand what his problem is. I never did anything bad to him.”“

””I don’t mean to talk about her behind her back, but I have to say that I hate Kelly. She is so annoying. She does so many things that I can’t stand!”“

””If someone is talking about you behind your back, you should confront him. Just walk up to him and ask him why he’s doing it. Tell him you don’t like it and that he should stop.”“

””Mandy is such a gossip. She always talks about people behind their back’s and says terrible thigns about people.”“

Winners

1. Winners - See who guessed the slang definition correctly.

If you talk behind someone’s back, you are making bad comments about that person without his/her knowing.
by Carolina (Madrid, Spain)
It means, speak bad things about someone that you envy or you don’t like, and you don’t want this person know who’s telling all of those bad thing about him/her.
by Andrea (Antofagasta, Chile)
degrade her before other people while she is not present
by Jasmine
That means speak ill of someone when they are not around.
by Emily (Qinhuangdao, China)
Say something bad about the one you jealous or hate to others.
by Peggy (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
It’s to say bad things about a person to everybody and the person doesn’t know what is being said about her.
by Roberta (Barra Mansa, Brazil)
It means she used to speak about her when she was not listening and she used to say bad things about her.
by paola (Pasto, Colombia)
when someone talk many bad things about other person and never realize that someone is talking about her.
by daniela (Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico)
talk about her behind her back” means talk sb. not face to face, usually speak bad words about that people due to jealous and anger.
by deng (Dalian, China)
I guess “To talk about her behind her back” means tell things against a person without the knowing of the one.
by Gersiney Pablo (Aracaju, Brazil)
When you do not like someome, you often talk about him or her with sb else. This is called “talk about her behind her back”. For example, our manager also says that if you donnot agree with her, you can question, and donnot talk about her behind her back.
by xiaona (Taiyuan, China)
I think to talk about her behind her back means: to speak ill of her or to slander.
by ghislain frederic (Brazzaville, Congo the Republic of)
In my opinion, this slang word means a man who hate or jealous someone, and say something which is bad and insulting with another people stealthily.
by peng (Sydney, Australia)
I think it means people talk about her, probably in the bad way and she don’t know what they ‘re talking about her, she just know that they ‘re talking about her. It’s like gossip.
by Suttinee (Thailand)
I guess it means that someone speak something negative of another persion who is not on the site
by Yongling (Richmond Hill, Canada)
to say something bad about somebody when s/he is not present. backbite.
by melanie (Qingdao, China)
It means someone talks badly of someone else as a result of jealousy or anger while he or she doesn’t know or realize it!
by qingguo (Changchun, China)
it means that talk about sb when they are away. and maybe these words are not good to them.
by xinshuang (Xuzhou, China)
say bad things about somebody without his or her awareness.
by kathy (Nanchang, China)
Saying sth bad behind someone to damage someone situation
by Akram (Tehran, Iran)
It means: to say bad things about a person who isn’t present at that moment.
by Raudna (São Paulo, Brazil)
Talk someone behind one’s back, means say something bad about someone behind her/his back.
by Sherry (ShenZhen, China)
It means to backbite someone; to say bad things about them in their absense.
by Akbar (Kashan, Iran)
talk something that bad for this person to someone else.
by charlene (Chaozhou, China)
tell other people about that person while she is not there.
by ANH (Cantho, Vietnam)
i think it means to talk to hurt someone who are hated by people who talk about it on the sly.
by sid (Shiga, Japan)
Talk with people about something bad to her when she is not present.
by cynthia (Toronto, CA)
If you would like to talk to someone and share something with him, you will stand in front of him and talk. But if there are something can’t be known by him, you will choose to tell others. Mostly that something is not good matter about him. So “talk about her behind her back” means that someone speaks ill words about others.
by Roger MY (Taipei, Taiwan)
Say bad things of somebody when he
or she is on absence.
by Jessie (Nanjing, China)
“Talking about someone behind someone’s back”.
Means that someone would say bad things about other.
by Evelin (Salvador, Brazil)
TO TALK BEHIND ONE’S BACK MEANS TO MAKE NEGATIVE COMMENTS ABOUT HIM/HER. A KIND OF “GOSSIP”
by marialba (Campinas/SP, Brazil)
It means saying something bad of someone else whom you dislike or envy.
by machshf (Hangzhou, China)
talk about her behind her back” means that you say her weak points to other people without her notice, like you betrayed her.
by Beatrice (Hong Kong, China)
It’s means that you’ll talk very bad about that person, trying to damage his/her image, or simply make some coments about her with other people without her/his knowlege and approval, because you feel very jealousy about her/his.
by belinda.esquivel (Panama)
i think talk about her behind her back means gossip about her when she’s not around
by Ivy (Penang, Malaysia)
talk about her behind her back” means to gossip, to talk something bad about one person.
by Kaewta (Bangkok, Thailand)
Should be saying nasty things to others instead of to her face.
by Yvette (Shanghai, China)
talk about her behind her back maybe means that slander someone else but he don’t know
by fay (Xiamen, China)
I think it means “speak her tale stealthily”
by ivy (Guangzhou, China)
say something bad about someone behind his or her back
by zhouquan (Shanghai, China)
talk about her behind her back” it means ” to gossip about her to be nervous…”
by Ayse (Istanbul, Turkey)
it could be the same meaning of backbiting. gossiping about someone behind his back.
by maryam
That is something like “badmouth”.
by conniecb76 (Fuzhou, China)
it means backbiting on someone.
by Graciela (Tres LAgoas, Brazil)
gossip her
by siriporn (Bangkok, Thailand)

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