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loyalty's evil twin, always smiling right up until the knife arrives
means The act of betraying someone's trust, especially through deceit by a person you believed was on your side.
from From the Old French 'trecherie,' meaning deceit or cheating, built on the verb 'trichier' — to trick or cheat — which also gives us the modern word 'trick.' So treachery and a card trick share a sly ancestor: both are about fooling someone who didn't see it coming. The deeper roots are murky, possibly tracing back to a Latin or Vulgar Latin word for deceiving, but the trail fades the further back you go.
- dante's basement
- frozen hell's deepest ring punishes traitors, not murderers
- latin root
- shares ancestry with trick, deceive, three-card cheat
- ides of march
- caesar's killers were friends he had pardoned
- benedict arnold
- his name became the American synonym for betrayal
- judas tree
- folklore says it blushed red with shame forever
benedict arnold's plot — american revolutionary general who conspired to surrender west point to the british in 1780
vidkun quisling — norwegian politician who collaborated with nazi germany and gave his name to the term 'quisling' for traitor
alger hiss case — u.s. state department official convicted of perjury for denying soviet espionage in 1950