Brewer's: Backbite

(To) To slander behind one's back.

“The only thing in which all parties agreed was to backbite the manager.” —p. 193. W. Irving: Traveller, Buckthorn

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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